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...masked and gloved strangers have long since departed, but they left some mementos behind. Four Geiger counters run continuously, and a villager is paid $66 a month to take daily readings. Other towns will buy no milk, produce or meat from Palomares, despite government assurances that the goods are untainted. Half of the town's 2,000 people have left for jobs elsewhere...
...travel in rolling slums -if they roll at all." When four commuters who share this opinion got together recently and staged a minor rebellion, they learned just how tough the authorities can be. The rebels were an employment counselor, Allen Simmons, 21, and three secretaries, Diane Glucksman, 21, Carole Geiger, 22, and Frances Piecora...
...idea for this program originated with Dr. H. Jack Geiger, 43, a onetime medicine reporter for the International News Service who decided that he could do more for his fellow men by becoming a doctor than by writing about doctors. While studying medicine at Western Reserve University in the mid-1950s, he read about medical centers for the poor that had long existed in Europe. Later he studied what he calls "social medicine" (the concept of illness as an environmental as well as a medical problem) at South Africa's only medical school primarily for blacks, at the University...
...returned to Boston, Gibson suggested that Tufts University, with an expanding program of social medicine, might sponsor a health-center program. Within four weeks, the hyperkinetic Geiger had Tufts' approval and an associate professorship, then obtained funds from the OEO. Says Geiger: "We have known for a long time about the relationships between poverty and health without fully facing up to them. The poor are likelier to be sick. The sick are likelier to be poor. Without intervention, the poor get sicker and the sick get poorer...
...there was Louis Slotin, a morose Canadian with an apparent death wish, who conducted tests of critical assemblies by poking curved segments of uranium or plutonium together with a screwdriver while eying his Geiger counter and neutron monitor. One day in 1946, nudging segments of a Bikini test bomb a little too close, he suddenly saw a blue ionization glow in the room-the sign of a dangerously radioactive reaction. He threw his body over the segments until everyone else in the room could hurry out. Although the others lived, Slotin achieved his death wish. He died in agony nine...