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There is no common name for what Dr. John F. Goodwin of the University of London and Hammersmith Hospital called "thromboembolic pulmonary vascular disorders." But these disorders, Dr. Goodwin told the Louisiana Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, are extremely common. In their most dramatic and catastrophic form, they are called pulmonary embolisms, and they may be almost as common as the single heart attack that proves quickly fatal. Their mechanism is similar-a blood clot traveling through the veins, usually from a leg, blocks one of the great arteries carrying blood from the heart to the lungs...
Sudden Catastrophe. Clot-caused obstructions in the smaller arteries of the lungs are even more common. But they are less often recognized because their onset is insidious and they are harder to diagnose. This kind of lung disorder is different from the familiar bronchitis and emphysema, Dr. Goodwin emphasized. In those diseases, the trouble is in the air passages or the air spaces of the lungs themselves. With clotting obstructions, the trouble originates in the blood vessels. But in the long run, it has just as serious effects on breathing...
...Crowded Act. Mann himself was then Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Around and about him was a "task force" headed by aging, imperious Adolf Berle, a Latin expert under F.D.R. There was also a youthful White House speechwriter, Richard Goodwin, whom John Kennedy fancied as a real idea man about Latin America. Berle and Goodwin superimposed their decisions and advice on those State Department regulars, and there is little doubt that one reason for the Bay of Pigs invasion fiasco was the number of fingers dipping into the Cuban problem. U.S. policy toward Latin America...
...months there was no Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Then Kennedy brought in Robert Woodward, a career diplomat. He lasted a year. In the meantime, Harvard Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. joined Goodwin in making White House policy to go along with the State Department policy Berle was making and the programs put forth by the CIA and the Defense Department. Bobby Kennedy tried a trip to Latin America; so did Adlai Stevenson and Kennedy himself. Eventually, Edwin Martin was made Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. He served until President Johnson, in his first major...
...more than a long, grey line of well-meaning but frustrated fellows. President Kennedy tried to solve the problem by sheer weight of numbers. In no particular order, and often simultaneously, he divided Latin American responsibility among the likes of old Roosevelt Brain-Truster Adolf A. Berle, Speechwriter Richard Goodwin (who coined the term Alliance for Progress), Mann's first-tour successor as Assistant Secretary, Robert Woodward, Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Brother Bobby, Alianza Coordinator Teodoro Moscoso, Woodward's successor Edwin M. Martin, and White House Aide Ralph Dungan. Confused, and with their flanks often turned...