Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind sandbag barricades and rifle-toting guards, Haiti's strong-willed President Francois Duvalier lay last week in his white palace, seriously ill of a heart attack. Out of fear that the truth would embolden opposition elements to start trouble, his aides stuck to a diagnosis of "grippe," but only succeeded in starting dangerous rumors-that Duvalier was paralyzed, was already dead, or had left the country. Superstitious blacks in the Port-au-Prince slums whispered that the President's ouangas (voodoo charms) had lost their power...
Early in Queen Victoria's long reign. Sir Benjamin Hall, her Chief Lord of Woods and Forests, promised Britain's Parliament "a king of clocks, the biggest and best in the world, within sight and sound of the heart of London." He kept his promise grandly. London's great Westminster clock was soon overseeing London's pace, keeping accurate time within a tenth of a second a day; one of its few respites from clockwork occurred in World War II when its works were shaken during a German air raid. One morning last week, when...
Although both sexes normally secrete some female hormones (estrogens) from birth until death, by far the heaviest output is among women who are old enough to bear children. From early teens to the early 50s, women have a negligible incidence of heart attacks as compared with men. After the menopause, a woman's immunity gradually fades until, about the age of 75, she is statistically as susceptible to heart attacks as a man. If it is indeed the estrogens that confer middle-life immunity, can it be prolonged by taking estrogen tablets-and can men get this benefit without...
...answer to both questions is yes, according to investigators at the University of Southern California School of Medicine. Red-haired and vivacious at 60, Dr. Jessie Marmorston reported last week on 174 women (many over 70) who had had one or more heart attacks-in nearly every case a coronary occlusion. She divided them into two equal groups, matched as precisely as possible for age and severity of symptoms. One-half got a small daily dose (ten-millionths of a gram) of estrogen, the rest got none. After three years, more than twice as many in the nonestrogen group...
...evidence from a group of 109 men who got a slightly larger but virtually nonfeminizing dose of estrogen. In addition to an encouraging trend in the male death rate, Dr. Kuzma reported that in most cases the levels of cholesterol and other fat fractions circulating in the blood of heart-attack victims returned closer to normal, with no untoward feminizing effects. And Dr. Kuzma found that increasing the dosage, to the point where feminization was unmistakable, conferred no added advantage...