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...frightening is the case of Louisa Alvaro, 26. A healthy mother of two, she began to hemorrhage during delivery of normal twins at a New York City hospital. Fifteen hours later she was dead. Doctors and hospital officials contended that her death was the result of a pre-existing liver condition and that everything had been done to save her. Her husband's attorney proved otherwise. Relying on expert testimony that tests were needed to determine the compatibility of Mrs. Alvaro's blood with blood administered during a transfusion, he was able to show that no tests were...
Died. General Lázaro Crdenas, 75, hero of Mexico, President from 1934 to 1940, and a major power in the ruling Revolutionary Party until his death; of liver disease; in Mexico City. One of the first and most forceful of the Latin American leftist nationalists, Crdenas enraged Britain and the U.S. in 1938 by expropriating $450 million worth of oil holdings owned by foreign concerns. When the U.S. retaliated by cutting off silver purchases, Crdenas agreed to pay some compensation, but continued to seize land owned by Americans. Eventually, Crdenas redistributed...
...that White House staffers found objectionable. It was not censorship they wanted, the aides explained. They just did not think that the U.S. public needed to know that President Nixon mixed himself a martini every night before dinner, that the Nixons love meat loaf and hate calf's liver, that Pat Nixon "at times appears to lack a good appetite" and that she was in the White House eleven months before she visited the chefs in the kitchen...
...year-old Mrs. Myrtle Joseph of Youngstown, Ohio, was examined by Dr. O. Whitmore Burtner, now of Miami. A bone-marrow test indicated that she suffered from chronic lymphatic leukemia, which was spreading slowly. By 1964, Mrs. Joseph needed regular blood transfusions. Her liver, spleen and lymph nodes became swollen. Then, in May 1967, she wrote a letter to Kathryn Kuhlman asking for her prayers. Within a few days she felt so well that she stopped seeing Dr. Burtner. Alarmed, he asked her to come in for tests. Her marrow, liver, spleen, lymph nodes and white blood cells were normal...
...Chicago's Gang Intelligence Unit found debris blocking the drive. As their car slowed, at least six rapid shots broke the silence. "I'm hit," cried Detective James A. Alfano Jr., 30, as one slug ripped through the car's trunk and rear seat, piercing his liver. Alfano's condition was listed as critical...