Word: basilic
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Treatment for PKU. Basil O'Connor, head of the National Foundation (the old March of Dimes group), pointed out that at least two inborn errors can now be treated. In phenylketonuria (PKU), an infant is unable to metabolize phenylalanine (one of the basic components of many proteins) and is in danger of severe mental retardation. Treatment consists simply of giving the child foods that are specially processed to remove phenylalanine. In galactosemia. the inability to convert galactose (which the body derives from milk) to glucose, untreated infants are prey to fulminating, fatal infections, and survivors suffer severe physical...
...BASIL O'CONNOR...
...some experts would like to see it dropped. Vaccinventor Sabin calls it "an insignificant test." But Dr. Jonas E. Salk tried in vain to block general release of any oral vaccine this year except for an emergency stockpile for Government controlled use in epidemics. The National Foundation's Basil O'Connor snorted: "It is totally unorthodox to license part of a vaccine." Some manufacturers guessed that release of Type III oral vaccine cannot come before spring...
Most dramatic element of what Scot tish Architect Sir Basil Spence calls his "prayer in stone" is the contrast between the starkly modern new building of pink sandstone (on the outside) and cool concrete (on the inside) and the bombed ruins, which will form a kind of entrance to the cathedral. They will be kept as they are-grass and gravel where the pews once stood-and linked to the new structure by a covered arch...
...asset that Chicago Sun-Times Publisher Marshall Field Jr. insisted on keeping when he bought the Chicago Daily News two years ago was the News's cask-shaped executive editor, Basil Leon Walters. Then 62, "Stuffy" already had 40 newspapering years under his size 44 belt, and that seemed like enough. But at Field's request he agreed to stay-at least until the News completed the move to Field's new Sun-Times building on the Chicago River. This week, the shift successfully completed, Stuffy Walters lit up a fat cigar, said goodbye all around...