Word: kessel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bachelor, Brassens lives on a deadend alley in Montparnasse with an aged couple, who befriended him in his lean years, and a menagerie of pets. Two members of the French Academy, Novelist Joseph Kessel and Film Maker Marcel Pagnol, have been promoting the initiation of Brassens into the august Academy as "one of the greatest contemporary poets, a modern troubadour who represents a new literary form...
...Paris, it took but a single ballot to elect Novelist-Journalist Joseph Kessel, 64, to the rarefied ranks of the Académic Française A byliner for Paris' France-Soir and author of the international bestseller The Lion, grey-maned Kessel is the first reporter ever to win a seat in the Academic. His election drew indignant grumbles from a fellow academician. Legion of Honor Commander Henry Bordeaux, who wrote the Academic protesting the entry of "this Kessel, who has lived such a dissolute life...
...expatriate U.S. yachtsman named William Albert Robinson, who lives in Papeete and had a touch of filariasis himself, interested Dr. Kessel in a campaign to rid Tahiti of the wormlets. Kessel trained a staff of Tahitian technicians, showed a film that taught natives where the mosquitoes bred-in holes in trees and rocks, in abandoned canoes, in tin cans, rain barrels, gasoline drums and worn-out tires, in coconuts half eaten by rats-and how to destroy the breeding places...
Broken Cycle. Dr. Kessel's most potent weapon was the drug diethylcarbamazine (Lederle Laboratories' Hetrazan). It does not kill all the adult worms or directly cure a full-blown case of filariasis, but it prevents reinfection by killing the wormlets in their early, vulnerable phase...
...Tahitians, all but a handful have taken Hetrazan. In five years, the incidence of filariasis has dropped from 40% to less than 5%, and elephantiasis has all but disappeared. Dr. Kessel expects the same results in Samoa, where filariasis in some areas is up nearly 100% since...