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...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...
...Republican Senator Clifford Case, on hand for Newark's parade curtly dismissed Ericsson as "just an upstart." Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Michael Musmanno, author of The Story of the Italians in America charged that the Yalemen "have gone into the moss-covered kitchen of rumor and, on the broken-down stove of wild speculation, fueled by ethnic prejudices have warmed over the stale cabbage of Leifs discovery of America." In the House, New York Democrat Benjamin Rosenthal introduced a bill to make Columbus Day a national legal holiday...
...marches had become a routine, but this one was a little different: the town had just thumbed its nose at the demonstrators by hiring a broken-down, 60-year-old Negro as police chief of its two-man force...
...Cubana Airlines has three four-engined Bristol Britannias at Havana airport. Often just one flies; the other two supply the spare parts. The few cars on Havana streets are rolling junk heaps - but precious junkheaps. "I could sell this thing for $1,400," boasts the proud owner of a broken-down 1948 Kaiser. When Havana's old General Motors buses finally began to give out, Castro imported a flashy new fleet from Czechoslovakia and Hungary. They could not take the heat. Early this year Castro bought 400 British buses from Leyland Motors, which do better in the heat...
Ultimately, the solution must come from science and technology. Conservationists cried over detergent foam-up in streams and rivers; science developed more easily broken-down ("biodegradable") detergents. Science has developed techniques for pretreating sewage and industrial waste so that it need not pollute the nation's waters. Science will find new ways to use growing stockpiles of scrap metal; it is developing acceptable substitutes for wood...