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...kidneys produce the form of vitamin D necessary for the normal bone-building process, many people with kidney disease, and especially those on dialysis treatments, suffer from serious and progressive bone deterioration and may become crippled. Now help may be on the way. A team headed by Dr. Hector DeLuca of the University of Wisconsin has developed a form of vitamin D that enables the body to assimilate calcium from food and deposit it in the bones. They have tested it on about 50 patients so far. DeLuca is confident that the synthetic vitamin will prove invaluable to some...
...enthusiasm in the Democratic Party. Pollster Patrick Caddell of Cambridge, Mass., reports that "70% or more of the party activists are not supporting anyone. They are all still looking for a candidate." Moreover, party leaders are also withholding their endorsements, and for an excellent reason. Explains Deputy Mayor John DeLuca of San Francisco: "A lot of the boys learned a political lesson the hard way last time. They came out early for Muskie and were left holding the bag." Adds Illinois Democratic Chairman John Touhy...
...DeLuca, along with Carbone, continues to work the night shift, but Roosevelt Towers residents say they don't see them any more. A police spokesman said recently the officers rotate beats in four areas of town, one of which is Inman Square, close to Roosevelt Towers...
...think DeLuca would be dumb enough to show his face here," says a woman who has lived at the Towers for four years. She recalled that three youths attacked DeLuca in Inman Square on March 6 last year. A month later a district court judge found the youths guilty of assault and gave them one-year suspended sentences...
Earlier this month, Haroz, the Largey family attorney, asked the present City Manager, James L. Sullivan, to "immediately initiate appropriate steps" to eliminate "legal impediments" affecting disciplinary hearings for DeLuca. In an October 8 letter, Haroz also asked Sullivan to investigate "the failure of Chief Reagan to implement the internal disciplinary action" against officers in the two-year-old case, as recommend by Liacos...