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Died. Charles Atlas, 80, the original "97-lb. weakling" who developed into the king of mail-order bodybuilders; of a heart attack; in Long Beach, N.Y. An Italian farm boy (real name: Angelo Siciliano), Atlas migrated to New York with his parents in 1904. He suffered from anemia and began a daily regimen of isometric exercises that turned him into a vaudeville strongman. With a 13-week bodybuilding course to sell. Atlas in 1928 was joined by Adman Charles Roman, who dubbed the system "Dynamic Tension" and created the cartoon of a hollow-chested, preAtlas adolescent having sand kicked...
...blood substitute is likely to be useful in basic research, as a possible treatment for leukemia, anemia and shock and in organ transplants and blood transfusions for surgery...
More than politicking is going into the effort. Neatly dressed workers in the Panthers' East 14th Street Oakland headquarters direct an impressive list of projects: breakfasts for children of the poor, a free clinic, sickle-cell-anemia tests and a once-a-week prison bus service for relatives of convicts. During the past year the Oakland Panthers have given away more than 50,000 15-lb. bags of food, registered 18,000 new voters and tested 35,000 local blacks for sickle-cell. They have also opened a Wednesday night legal clinic staffed by four volunteer lawyers. They...
There are at least 5,000 children with Cooley's anemia in the U.S. alone, most of them of Mediterranean descent; unlike most genetic flaws, this one has a known geographic origin. Mary Lou and Linda are more fortunate than most victims of their disease. They receive regular transfusions of red blood cells from the Children's Blood Foundation, an unusual organization affiliated with Manhattan's New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center that offers hope to victims of this and other debilitating diseases...
Risky Treatment. Founded in 1952 and supported primarily by private funds, C.B.F. treats and studies the complete spectrum of children's blood disorders. The foundation treats those with sickle-cell anemia, a hereditary blood disease largely limited to blacks; supervises a home-care program for hemophiliacs; and conducts drug-treatment programs for children with leukemia. It also maintains an outpatient clinic for Cooley's anemia that currently provides ongoing therapy to approximately 55 victims of this ethnic ailment...