Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carrying out that policy is nightmarishly difficult. U.S. policymakers have been forced to improvise from hour to hour. What looked like a stroke of intuitive genius one day seemed to be a blunder of impulsive foolishness the next. Nobody has found this more frustrating than the President of the U.S. Said Lyndon Johnson in a four-hour, after-dinner talkfest with some 30 journalists in the Georgetown home of Columnist Max Freedman: "We think we've got something patched up there and then it falls apart...
...most daring, and still somewhat controversial, of Dr. DeBakey's innovations is an operation on arteries leading to the brain; it is done to ease the effects of a stroke and to reduce the likelihood that the patient will have more strokes. Though some strokes are the result of hemorrhaging from burst arteries, the great majority are caused by clot shutdowns where the arteries are inside the skull and inaccessible. But Dr. DeBakey thinks that as many as 20% of the clots occur in the carotid and vertebral arteries, below the floor of the skull, where the surgeon...
...Australia's Bruce Crampton, 29: the $100,000 Colonial National Invitation golf tournament; at Fort Worth. Tied for second at the start of the final round -postponed for two days by heavy rains-Crampton fired a four-under-par 66 that gave him a three-stroke victory, his second of 1965 (he also won the Bing Crosby National) and by far the richest of his career: first-place money...
...Frankfurter, 59, editor since 1936 of the influential monthly Art News, a witty critic and historian, who raised his magazine's circulation from 1,400 to 32,000 (largest in its field) by balancing scholarly essays on the past with comprehensive reviews of the present; of a stroke; in Jerusalem...
Died. Frances Perkins, 83, first woman Cabinet officer, F.D.R.'s Secretary of Labor (1933-45); of a stroke; in Manhattan (see THE NATION...