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...process begins, they report, with the laying down of the familiar chalky and fatty material, largely cholesterol, inside the artery (see diagram). Then, by processes not yet understood, an "abscess" forms either within the artery's innermost layer (intima) or between the intima and the middle layer (media) of the three-ply artery wall. But this is no ordinary abscess, filled with pus. It is a special, possibly unique type, containing the debris of broken-down cells from the blood and the artery walls, a fatty paste, crystals of cholesterol, and calcium...
...ancient city of Kandy, newly elected Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake last week donned the traditional white robes of a pilgrim. Then he entered the Temple of the Tooth to worship the miraculous tooth* of the Lord Buddha, which is encased in the innermost of seven gold caskets. That afternoon Senanayake spoke to a huge crowd gathered before the temple. He reminded them that he had inaugurated his election campaign last January by another visit to the temple. "With the blessings of the tooth and the people's encouragement, we have carried out the struggle successfully," said Senanayake...
...address, Lyndon Baines Johnson not only laid open the U.S. racial question. He also bared some innermost thoughts on how he yearns to be regarded by history. Excerpts...
...that revolution? Lerner was filled with doubt. "A revolution is a mood and a climate," he said. "It is against power abused and injustice encrusted . . . it is a sense of resistance overcome and triumph achieved; it is a heady madness of winning through. One feels that Johnson by his innermost nature is incapable of generating such a revolutionary climate and leading such a mood...
...also contained in the innermost third of the ear, and working in far more mysterious ways, is a labyrinth of three nonhearing organs. The best known is a set of three semicircular canals. Minute changes in the flow and pressure of the fluid in these canals send the brain such signals as "You're turning to the right." Together, the canals make up what is probably the most important single "organ of equilibrium." But there are others...