Word: charleston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week two toddlers in Charleston, S.C., owed their prompt recoveries and probably their lives to the fact that young doctors remembered having read during the past year of a new and highly effective, but still experimental, treatment for iron poisoning. Lieut. Commander Lawrence G. Thorne, 31, was on duty at Charleston's U.S. Naval Hospital when two-year-old Michael V. Tate, son of a radarman, was brought in critically ill after swallowing from 30 to 60 of his mother's iron pills. Dr. Thorne quickly ordered blood transfusions and put the child on EDTA, a chemical...
...medical centers had been approved to use the stuff; Dr. Thorne phoned Ciba to learn where he could find a supply. The nearest proved to be at Duke Hospital in Durham, N.C., and it took a special flight by a Navy plane to get the Desferal to Charleston in time. With the new drug, which is safer than EDTA because it spares other metals but leaches out iron selectively, Michael Tate perked up fast and has fully recovered...
...Charleston, W.Va., Barry blasted Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty as a "phony, vote-getting gimmick" and "a raid on your pocketbooks." West Virginia, of course, is practically a casebook study of the depressed area...
...blue chips. Last week, in one of the largest deals in the industry's 44-year history, Manhattan's Capital Cities Broadcasting Corp. paid $15 million to Detroit's Goodwill Stations for WJR Radio in Detroit (current value: $8,000,000) and WSAZ Radio-TV in Charleston-Huntington, W. Va. (value...
...someone else did the standing around. In 1960 he became the first major Democratic candidate to announce for the presidency, but disappointment still dogged Humphrey. He lost the primary in his neighboring state of Wisconsin to Kennedy, was trounced again in West Virginia. In a sorrowful scene in Charleston, Humphrey stepped before television cameras to announce that "I am no longer a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination." Folk Singer Jimmy Wofford twanged at his guitar, struck up a final woebegone chorus of "Vote for Hubert Humphrey, he's your man and mine . . ." Once more, tears came to Humphrey...