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...Smooth Flow. Most dreaded and suddenly fatal of all heart ailments are those due to bloodclotting, e.g., coronary thrombosis. For reasons not yet perfectly understood (too little exercise, poor metabolism, infection), blood cells sometimes begin to stick together to form a thrombus (a stationary clot). But the thrombus grows, may eventually let loose daughter clots (emboli) which swim on to lodge at vital bottlenecks in the blood stream. A thrombus which lodges in a coronary (heart) artery, blocking off the blood supply to the heart muscle, can kill within a few minutes; a clot in the brain causes a stroke...
...strategically important Alaska Railroad, the one all-weather link (470 miles) between Seward on the coast and Fairbanks in the interior, is being completely reconstructed. By 1952 its roadbed will be rebuilt, its rails and ancient rolling stock will be replaced, its narrow cuts (in which 106 moose had fatal head-on collisions with locomotives last winter) will be widened, its capacity for freight and passengers increased eight to ten times...
Sensational news made the last few issues of the CRIMSON a sneak thief was unfortunate enough to be identified while pilfering a room in Westmerely, while up at Jefferson Laboratories some oil in an oxygen tank was the cause of an explosion fatal to two workers...
Pulmonary anthrax, almost invariably fatal to man, might be effective-but it can get a foothold only on mucous membranes already raw with irritation. Rosebury & Kabat have a suggestion: mix up the anthrax spores with mustard...
...tragedy of men hopelessly trapped-thanks largely to the fact that the U.S. Army didn't bother to parachute them their long-promised heavy machine guns. TIME-LIFE Correspondent Wertenbaker's handling of these and other military passages indicates that experience as a journalist is not always fatal to creative writing...