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Fact is, each year one out of every thousand women under 45-regardless of whether she is taking Enovid, or aspirin, or no drugs at all-will have an attack of thrombophlebitis. In a few of these cases, a blood clot from an inflamed leg or pelvic vein will travel to the lungs and cause serious illness or death. The danger that this will happen is known to be markedly greater in pregnant women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Pills | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

...made up of fools," cried incumbent Premier Norman Washington Manley, 68, an aloof, Oxford-educated barrister. In even louder voice was his opponent. Sir William Alexander Bustamante, 78, a tempestuous, half-Irish Bohemian. Manley billed himself as "The Man with the Plan," but to Bustamante he was only "The Clot with the Plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jamaica: Return of the Chief | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

...Gathering. In Palm Beach the President conferred with his wife, his mother, Rose Kennedy, and other members of the family. From his father's three doctors he learned more details about the fact that Joseph Kennedy had suffered an intracranial thrombosis, a blood clot in an artery in the brain. A quickly performed arteriogram-dye injected into the main artery of the neck and photographed by X ray as it flows through the vessels of the brain-had revealed the thrombosis to be in the left cerebral hemisphere, and inoperable. There was some paralysis in Kennedy's right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Dad's Gotten Sick | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

When he is on the attack, which is most of the time, Menon's expression is ferretlike. Brain surgery last October for a blood clot deprived him of his elaborately curled silver locks, making his looks even fiercer. Though he has no known history of any leg ailment, he constantly brandishes a cane as if it were a weapon. A teetotaler and vegetarian, Menon, 64, dresses with Savile Row impeccability at the U.N.; at home in India, he wears a loose-fitting, collarless jibbah in which, says one Western observer, "he looks like Boris Karloff playing John the Baptist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: MENON'S WAR | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...unicorn nibbled its last rose, and left the garden. But readers knew well enough what they had seen. James Thurber, who died at 66 last week, a month after an emergency operation to relieve a blood clot on the brain, was an aphorist of sad truths who mourned his times with laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAMES THURBER | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

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