Word: withe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Andrés Martinez Trueba, 75, President of Uruguay who voluntarily stepped down in his second year (1952) of office to permit the introduction of a government by council, patterned after Switzerland's, with a rotating chairmanship, and was elected first chairman; in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Died. Walter Williams, 117 by his own reckoning, and the last living veteran of the Civil War, with a story of a career as a Confederate foragemaster; in Houston. Recent investigations have indicated that Hero Williams was only five years old when war broke out, but his fame is secure...
Commonest cause of death in these cases, they found, was blocking of a pulmonary artery by a traveling blood clot that had developed in the leg veins. This often undetectable process killed 40%-50% of patients over 50, who died after fractures of the leg, thigh or pelvis. So Drs...
Of 150 patients, none had a major lung-artery blockage while receiving phenindione. though three had embolisms (two of them fatal) after the drug was stopped. Among the untreated 150, no fewer than 15 deaths appeared to be solely or substantially attributable to traveling clots. Like all anticoagulants, phenindione must...
Despite the new riches, no one regarded the world through Utopian spectacles in 1959; desperate poverty was still a condition of life in many lands. Nevertheless, even the humblest of nations could at least look ahead to the 1960s with hope. There were two reasons for this. In their new...