Word: connors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history of Hollywood musicals, starring Nanette Fabray, Shirley Jones, Howard Keel, Yvette Mimieux, Juliet Prowse, with Host Donald O'Connor and David Rose's orchestra. Color...
...Among them: Poets William Butler Yeats (who was an I.R.A. "morale officer") and Oliver St. John Gogarty; Playwrights Sean O'Casey and Brendan Behan; Novelists Sean O'Faolain, Liam O'Flaherty, Frank O'Connor...
...mile relay could be a wild race this evening, if McCurdy decides to go for it, and if Mullin, Kirkland, Eddie Meehan, and Lowell Davidson are still standing. Holy Cross can choose its relay unit from among Kevin Callahan, Paul Lilly, Charlie Buchta, Bud Barker, Jack O'Connor, and Tom Noering...
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...
While PKU is rare (once in 25,000 births) and galactosemia is probably even rarer, one in every 16 U.S. infants is born with some defect, many of which, untreated, may be handicapping or fatal, said O'Connor. And the scientists are closing in on other disorders suspected of being transmitted by genes, the giant molecules of heredity: diabetes, gout, some forms of mongolism, cretinism, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, the inability to make protective antibodies against bacteria, and many other disorders of the blood, besides obvious physical defects...