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...long, costly and difficult. The U.S. must train 8,900 new M.D.s every year by 1970, as against 6,800 a year now-which will mean setting up 14 to 20 new medical schools. Personnel is already in hen's-teeth supply, causing barefaced piracy. Merck's Connor quoted one drug company's research director: "I have the greatest spy service in the Western Hemisphere. We scout people all the time. It's a dangerous game, but the stakes are high...
...Baby in a Month? If a crash program, atomic style, could get started, would it pay off? Probably not. according to President John T. Connor of New Jersey's Merck & Co.. Inc. (TIME, Aug. 18. 1952), who gave the committee the results of his company's private survey: "There is real concern that the public is being misled into believing that you can buy discovery with money, that nine times as much money will cure nine times as many diseases or one disease in one-ninth the time. As one of those interviewed...
Over the neat signature of Lawyer Basil O'Connor, 66, its first and perennial president (since 1938), the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis sent out word last week that it will soon make "the first announcement of our plans" for a new program-now that victory over paralytic poliomyelitis has been substantially achieved. The plans, said O'Connor, "have been many years in the making." He might have added that ever since the Salk vaccine, developed with N.F.I.P. funds, was recognized as a weapon capable of preventing the worst ravages of polio, the roar of speculation about what...
...Connor's well-laid and supposedly secret plans had leaked in widening Manhattan medical circles. The marching dimes will right wheel. From facing an infectious disease and its complications, they will turn to attack arthritis and malformations that are present at birth. Though utterly different in origin, these disorders have something in common with paralytic polio-they cause long-term if not lifelong disablement, require vast sums for costly care of helpless victims. The N.F.I.P. sees these targets as first of a series, hopes to conquer them by the same blitz tactics that it used against polio, then move...
...what is health? Author O'Connor finds it readymade for him to put on in the wise words of Montaigne: "The grandeur of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly; its grandeur does not exercise in grandeur, but in mediocrity." If O'Connor had held to this maxim as stoutly in his prose (which is often sheer gibberish) as he has in taking the "road to conformity," Public Baby would have been easier to take as a memorial to an ill-spent life...