Word: iii
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...August 17, 1961, after over six years of tests, the PHS licensed Pfizer and Co. to produce Type 1 Sabin vaccine and purchased over one million emergency epidemic doses for cold storage at Atlanta's Communicable Disease Center. In March, 1962, the final Type III Vaccine was approved by the government. Then, in September, Canada suddenly suspended its use of the vaccine because four cases of polio had appeared among the 4,000,000 inoculated, and the PHS wished to check the possibility that the Sabin virus had caused the disease. In the U.S. eleven such cases were reported after...
...view of the potential danger, however small, the PHS recommended that communities withhold Type III from adults, yet at the same time urged that all types be given to children. But many Communities decided to stop all Sabin activities and allowed their vaccination programs to flounder despite PHS pleas for more inoculations. These events elicited remarks from Dr. Salk in praise of his vaccine, protests from Sabin, a statement from New York Health Commissioner Hilleboe that he would only permit use of the Salk preparation, and a remark from Dr. Eichenwald of Cornell's New York Hospital insisting that oral...
Crossroads of Power, by Sir Lewis Namier. In this collection of essays on 18th century England, the late great British historian makes clear how little ideology mattered in the tolerant days of George III...
...Palace Hotel, where a single with bath can be had for $50 a day, is still the town's toniest hangout; over the past several years, its guests have ranged from high royalty and heads of state (Belgium's Leopold III and son Baudouin, President Félix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, France's Pierre Mendés-France, Italy's Umberto, the Princesses Brigitta of Sweden and Alexandra of Britain) to plain old actors and artists (Joan Crawford, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Armstrong, Ava Gardner, Melina Mercouri, Lionel Hampton and Pablo Casals...
...earlier study Whitla defined the academically average to include students from the 30th to the 70th percentiles of their class--roughly Groups III and IV of the Rank List...