Word: anemia
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From what they have slowly and painstakingly pieced together about mosaicism in female cells, medical geneticists are getting a better understanding of several inherited disorders including some forms of anemia and hemophilia, and color blindness. The research has a direct bearing on cases of genetically confused sex, in which both males and females may have an extra female sex chromosome. And this in turn may have surprising importance in mental deficiency, in which sex-chromosome abnormalities are now being detected more often. The cell studies are also tied in with some forms of cancer, especially a form of chronic leukemia...
...just stepped from a niche in an old cathedral, Pope John XXIII, 81, in miter and brocades attended canonization ceremonies for three new saints in St. Peter's Basilica. Later in the week, appearing at an audience for 1,200 (his first since his recovery from anemia), he entered the Vatican's Clementine Hall briskly, but accepted help in mounting the three steps to the golden throne. Cheerily expressing the hope that he would be around to see the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council before Christmas of 1963, he said: "One year is a long time...
...stock sale eased Green Bay's finances, but now the Packers suffered from another, more obstinate ailment: anemia on the football field. Feeding on heftier bankrolls, the big-city teams-the New York Giants. Los Angeles Rams. Cleveland Browns. Detroit Lions-ruled the league. Starting in 1948. the small-town Packers went eleven years without a winning season. In 1958. they won only one game Tout of twelve). Things got so bad that Green Bay youngsters tore up their autograph books and Packer coaches wisely left their telephones off the hook. "A small town." says Coach Harland Svare...
...John XXIII was seriously ill. The Vatican, canceling all papal audiences a few days after the Pontiff's 81st birthday, at first reported that the Pope had a case of influenza. But the real trouble, it said later, was a gastric illness that had provoked a "rather intense anemia." There was speculation, although no confirmation, that he had an ulcer. Put to bed and on a strict diet, he seemed cheerier after a few days...
Died. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, 78, niece of one U.S. President, widow of another, perennial first lady to much of the world; of anemia, complicated by tuberculosis; in Manhattan (see THE NATION...