Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organisms. On the surface, such work often seems remote from practicality, but it has helped chemists find the necessary techniques to create hundreds of new drugs, plastics, synthetic fibers. By unveiling the structure of the hemoglobin molecule, Pauling also revealed the nature of hitherto unrecognized ills, e.g., sickle-cell anemia, and may have laid the foundation for a whole new medical strategy against disease...
Just before Christmas, a wave of mysterious illness struck Canklow's children, caused headaches, jaundice and anemia! Twenty-five children were rushed to hospitals, dozens more were treated at home. On Christmas Eve, doctors took 200 blood tests, diagnosed the plague as lead poisoning. Then they checked back, learned that every stricken child came from a house where the battery cases had been used for fuel...
Beyond the action shots, the film has little to say, although there is a passing attempt at showing how a white-blooded American Boy (Mathias once had anemia) can become a great athlete. The girl friend in the picture, as well as in real life, is now Mathias' wife Melba, who may have the makings of a genuine actress. Her husband will probably be remembered as a great athlete...
...Governor John Fine moved into his old bailiwick, Luzerne County, in an effort to unseat State Senator T. Newell Wood. Fine managed to beat Wood in the G.O.P. primary, but Republicans lost so much blood in the battle that Benin's campaign developed a serious case of political anemia...
...thinks all three magazines suffer from "editorial anemia," lack ideas, drive and direction. He wants better written, better documented articles, and, for Collier's, fewer sensational science-fiction stories or what he calls "Space Cadetism." Finally, Smith wants to beef up his editorial pages...