Word: gabald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the musty halls of Caracas' Central University, 39-year-old Arnoldo Gabaldón rose to receive a nation's thanks. Flanked by six cabinet ministers, Gabaldón told of what had been done. "We are now able to dominate this great plague of the nation," he said. "In all probability we will be the first tropical country to defeat the disease...
Back in Venezuela, Gabaldón reviewed his problem. Half of his countrymen suffered from malaria at one time or another. It broke the spirit as well as the body. "People with malaria just don't care," says Gabaldón. "They don't even care if you treat them." As a Rockefeller Foundation fellow in protozoology, Gabaldón had learned that the chronic malarial "lose even the desire to procreate." Gabaldón decided...
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