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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Besides fatty obstructions, reported Tulane University's Dr. Homer D. Kirgis in San Francisco, the Circle of Willis can also be afflicted by a kind of malign predestination. Some people are candidates for certain types of strokes as a result of what happened-or didn't happen-before they were born. The human fetus goes through a phase in which the internal carotid artery on each side feeds into three branch arteries and supplies most of the blood to its hemisphere of the brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Highways & Byways | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

Then, though he himself is a distinguished Milanese businessman, Merzagora also threw in a blunt word of warning about the malign influence exercised on Italy's government by the nation's great capitalists and its huge government corporations, which have steadily expanded since Fascist days. Said he: "An atmosphere of corruption weighs on Italian political life, polluted by speculation and unlawful financial activities . . . If Italy does not soon rediscover the joys of political honesty, very sad prospects lie before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Word of Warning | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

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