Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon Johnson last week addressed two appeals to the Kremlin for progress on arms controls, a subject he clearly holds vital to the peace effort of his last months as president...
...Stalin's wartime mating call. It not only provides for financial support when paternity can be established but, more important, permits unwed mothers to make up a father's name to put on their child's birth certificate and other documents. In Russia that is vital, for a Russian takes his father's first name as his middle name and is commonly addressed by his own first name plus the patronymic. Thus Premier Kosygin is known as Aleksei Nikolaevich (son of Nikolai). The absence of such a patronymic exposes a child to humiliation in what remains...
...done to the right portions of Kennedy's brain. The fragments were so tiny and so numerous, he said, "it was remarkable that the neurosurgeons were able to maintain the Senator's condition until the last minute." Only after several weeks of intensive microscopic examination of the brain, the vital organs, and an "exhaustive review with members of the medical team," he said, would a complete report be released...
...activity. The midbrain area, directly beneath the juncture of the cerebellar hemispheres, is related to eye reflexes and both eye and body movements. It also serves as a pathway for nerve tracts running to and from the cerebellum and other parts of the brain. A bit lower and most vital is the brain stem, the "old brain," which man has shared with other creatures since the earliest stages of evolution. A passageway for nerve impulses, it monitors breathing, heartbeat, blood pressure, digestion and muscle reflexes, mediates emotions...
Last Hours. While Kennedy lay dying, neurosurgeons recalled cases in which less extensive damage to a combination of these vital areas had not prevented partial or full recovery?even after weeks of coma. Since Kennedy was righthanded, the undamaged left side of his brain was more critical to his body control. In some cases, therapy has helped brain-injured patients to train the less dominant side of the brain to take over. Such cases are rare, and for Robert Kennedy, the damage had been too extensive even for survival. Twelve hours after the operation, the recordable brain waves ceased...