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...hypertension will almost certainly have similar results. Twenty-three million Americans fall victim to this quiet, almost symptomless epidemic, but only about 3 million are getting proper treatment. An unnecessarily lethal disease, hypertension "makes a major contribution to the leading causes of death in America - heart disease and stroke," says Associate Editor Peter Stoler, "but it's being conquered. There's no question that if you get treatment you can live a lot longer." For the story, Stoler and Reporter-Researcher Jean Bergerud, a veteran of 22 years in the Medicine section, interviewed pioneer blood-pressure researcher...
Ford, whose views clashed with the liberal stands of Douglas, charged that the conduct of the Justice off the bench merited his dismissal. Last week, while vacationing in the Bahamas, Douglas, 76, suffered a stroke. The man who immediately arranged for a Government jet to fly Douglas' doctor to the Justice's side was the President. Later, Ford sent a plane to bring Douglas, his wife and the physician back to Washington. The President was kept closely informed about the condition...
...concept of an infinitely expanding universe [Dec. 30] is hardly philosophically disturbing. To the contrary, a cyclic universe, mechanistically doomed forever to repeat itself in entropic stroke and counterstroke is disturbing in its implications of the worth of human existence...
...that she realized what it meant. One day, a friend told her that she was slurring her words; her boyfriend noticed that she was limping; she herself found that she could not comb her hair. She then drove to a hospital, where she learned that she had suffered a stroke...
...Wilson, 57, a black construction worker from Katy, Tex., enjoyed vigorous good health until 1971, when he suddenly began complaining about feeling weak. A visit to his doctor quickly revealed why: his blood pressure was dangerously high, and unless it was brought down quickly, Wilson risked death from a stroke or heart attack...