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With advancing age, as the arteries leading to the brain become more and more clogged by fatty deposits, the chances grow that a clot may form in one of the narrowed passages, cutting off the flow of blood to a region of the brain. The result may be a stroke, which could lead to loss of memory or speech, paralysis, and even death. For this type of patient, few treatments are available, though doctors sometimes prescribe anticoagulants to lessen the chance of clotting. Yet, since 1967, teams of skilled neurosurgeons have been performing exquisitely delicate brain-artery bypass operations...
According to Dr. James I. Ausman, head of the University of Minnesota team that reported on its bypass studies at a recent stroke conference in New Orleans, there are six danger signals that may precede a major stroke: passing episodes, lasting from minutes to several hours, of 1) numbness in a limb or the face; 2) weakness or drooping on one side of the body; 3) speech difficulties; 4) blurring of vision, usually in one eye; 5) dizziness and double vision; or 6) severe headache and a stiff neck. Anyone who experiences such "little strokes" should visit a physician promptly...
Fayer is entered in the 50- and 100-yd. freestyle events. Although she only began working out in January after an early-season injury, the former Olympian says she is ready. Walsh said of Fayer: "With probably the worst stroke I've seen, she is moving so fast...
...White House's closest equivalent to a chief of staff. Last week was particularly grim for Jordan, both personally and professionally. Late in the week, he was hurriedly summoned home to Albany, Ga., after his father, Richard Jordan, 69, a retired insurance agent and former Army major, suffered a stroke (he died the following day). Earlier, Jordan and the White House as a whole had had to slog through yet another of Ham's unwanted and unwinnable bouts with the gossip columnists...
DIED. Phyllis McGinley, 72, Pulitzer-prize-winning poet, essayist and author of children's stories; of a stroke; in Manhattan. After a lonely childhood as the daughter of an unsuccessful land speculator, McGinley moved to New York, took a job as a junior high school English teacher, and began selling poems to literary magazines. Asked by New Yorker Fiction Editor Katherine White, "Why do you sing the same sad songs all lady poets sing?" McGinley began to find her own voice and to extol the pleasures and poignancies of the hearth, Memorial Day parades, the smell of charcoal grills...