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...Pellegrino is no less liberal in his views on national health needs than are Drs. Knowles and Egeberg. He has been expanding his hospital's services to the poor, favors a national health insurance plan and wants a sizable increase in the number of U.S. medical students and paramedical personnel. He is said to be an excellent administrator, a skill he will need at HEW, where his new post will involve overseeing the disbursal of some $4 billion a year. And according to some HEW insiders, administration was not one of Egeberg's strengths...
...ridiculous. Above all, he wants to cling to the mystery of sex, to the "enigma of orgasm," as he puts it, to "the orgasm as the mirror of one's existence." As a result, he will not give credence to laboratory evidence presented by Kate Millett (collected from Drs. Masters and Johnson and Dr. Mary Jane Sherfey) that an artificial phallus could induce, in an hour's time, twenty to fifty orgasms in some guinea-pig of a woman lying on an operating table. For "what value," he wants to know, "would be attached to the mirror of the sexual...
...back," a compression fracture in which several vertebrae are rammed painfully together. Last year hurt spines accounted for roughly 13% of the nation's 306 reported snowmobile injuries, and investigators at the University of Michigan's Highway Safety Research Institute have recently found out why. According to Drs. Verne Roberts and Robert Hubbard, soaring snowmobilers are subjected to even greater G forces than pilots being ejected from disabled jets...
...entire U. S. population is exposed to the level the AEC considers safe for the general population, Joshua Lederberg, Nobel Laureate in genetics, estimates a 10 per cent increase in the mutation rate. Other researchers, notably Drs. Gofman and Tamplin of the AEC, estimate between 32,000 and 150,000 additional annual deaths due to increased mutation, cancer and leukemia...
...Vandenberg's eight children, four inherited his ailment, including one daughter who passed it on to seven of her nine children. Last month the N.G.F. staged a reunion in South Dakota for 95 of Vandenberg's descendants, who came from five states and Argentina. On hand were Drs. William Nyhan and Roger Rosenberg of the University of California School of Medicine at San Diego, plus Dr. Lawrence Schut, a Minneapolis neurologist who is one of the unaffected members of the Swier family. With the family's permission, a crew from WCCO-TV of Minneapolis, Minn., flew...