Word: burnet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...organisms?was discovered at the end of the 19th century. In the 1940s, doctors finally recognized that a badly functioning immune system, or the absence of one, can leave the body virtually defenseless against infection from without. But it was not until the early 1950s that Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet, an Australian, theorized that the way the body manages to cope with the enormous range of disease organisms is through its ability to recognize itself and to reject everything that is nonself (see box page...
...years later, Burnet and Dr. Lewis Thomas, who has just been appointed president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, suggested a relationship between the immune system and cancerous growth. They postulated that in addition to protecting the body from invaders, the immune system has the duty to police cell growth and prevent the survival and replication of abnormal or "outlaw" cells...
...Burnet and Thomas saw it, the body, in which cells are continually replicating themselves, produces anywhere from tens to hundreds...
...heavier now, and his hair is almost gone on top. But Bobby Baker's tailoring is as impeccable as it was when he learned from the great men -Burnet Maybank, Alben Barkley, Sam Rayburn. Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kerr -to dress as though you were prosperous. There is the same keen intelligence, the same up-to-the-minute knowledge of national affairs. Nor has Baker become a more humble man despite his gentle manner. He recalls that he had once planned to return to his native South Carolina and run for office: "I have no doubt that I could have...