Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coventry, famed for Lady Godiva and the World War II blitz, that put the British polio picture in focus. With 87 cases in a population of 267,000, it was not the worst-hit city - Maidstone (pop. 55,000) had at least as many cases, and Lincoln (pop. 70,000) had 83. But Coventry's plight was clearest on the record. In July, with 54 cases logged, Coventry had received only enough vaccine to inoculate half the 14,000 top-priority children (aged three to nine) who had registered for shots. The Ministry of Health refused more vaccine. Reason...
Hitler's blitz of 1940 rained down a hotter kind of fire. All that remained of the church at war's end was the crypt, the shell of the tower and the bare stone walls, all lying not a mile from the still intact magnificence of the much newer (1675-1710) St. Paul's. Planners in charge of the rebuilding of London marked off All Hallows as too far gone for restoration...
...only been called an s.o.b. once." Most medical groups in other cities were either slicing or eliminating vaccination fees. Clinics in and around Pittsburgh have shot some 170,000 people under 20 in the past month. Houston hopes to inoculate 200,000 during a twelve-hour polio blitz on St. Patrick...
...Power (Sun. 6:30 p.m., CBS). Counterblast, the story of England's blitz, narrated by Walter Cronkite...
Four Possibilities. Ever since the six-day blitz against Egypt, Israel's Minister of Religion, Dr. Samuel Cahane, has been snowed in by cables and letters from would-be pilgrims hoping to see the holy mountain while Israel still held the peninsula (Jewish travelers had been discouraged by the Egyptians). "It seems as if all the Jews in the world want to go to Mount Sinai," said Dr. Cahane. But nobody knows where Sinai is. Modern archaeologists and ancient traditions recognize four main possibilities...