Word: koch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long election night, only three percentage points separated the top four candidates: Koch, 20%; Cuomo, 19%; Beame, 18%; Abzug, 17%. For Koch, 52, and Cuomo, 45, the first-round results meant a tough play-off for their party's nomination. The two come from similar backgrounds, agree on more substantive questions than not, and contrast mostly in their personalities and styles...
Both are the sons of immigrants. Koch's parents were Polish Jews who worked in garment-center sweatshops as youngsters. Cuomo's parents, illiterate in their own language, ran a grocery after emigrating from Italy. Both young men became lawyers before entering politics...
...eruption of volcanic anger, has left ugly and almost immutable, there was little visible to recall Kalaupapa's dismal history as the plane circled to land on a short but well-blacktopped strip. During the drive to the health department offices and the hospital with Dr. Leslie Charles Koch, chief of Hawaii's State Leprosy Control Program, who was making one of his twice-weekly visits to the colony, there were cheery waves and "Alohas" from patients...
...hospital there were mercifully few patients requiring Koch's attention. Only half a dozen beds were occupied, none by patients with active leprosy. One patient had a febrile illness; another was having kidney trouble; a third was staying in the hospital because he was too emotionally disturbed to live alone outside. Outpatients dropped in during the morning for Koch to treat ulcers-most of them located on their hands and feet-that had originally been caused by leprosy and then complicated by other infections. Some came to have the doctor renew their prescriptions for medicine-not, in most cases...
Ironically, Damien's fame and the cause of his death have stood in the way of public awareness that for most ethnic groups, leprosy is one of the least contagious of all diseases. Koch estimates that 90%, perhaps even as many as 99% of Caucasians could not catch leprosy if they tried-not even by living in marital contact with a patient for many years...