Word: lenz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laid down in a sort of pre-egg form while she is still in her mother's womb, or shortly after birth. This explains why the mother's health, at conception and during pregnancy, may be important a generation later. Therefore, West Germany's Dr. Widukind Lenz concluded, "the present trend toward earlier sexual maturity, earlier marriage and earlier reproduction is biologically favorable...
Seal Limbs. After three months of frustrating legalities, the people in the crowded courtroom saw for themselves the naked evidence of thalidomide's devastating effects. Dr. Lenz showed color slides of children with no arms, or no legs, or only seal-like flippers where arms and legs should be. Some of the pictures came from post-mortems and showed malformations of the heart and other internal organs...
Relentlessly, Lenz assembled the evidence against thalidomide. Phocomelia (seal limbs) had been one of the rarest of congenital defects until 1960, the year after thalidomide went on the market. Then the incidence of the condition increased exponentially, and Lenz had a damning graph showing that it went up on a curve exactly paralleling that of thalidomide sales-but with an eight-month time lag. Lenz explained that he explored other suggested explanations for the increase in phocomelia, such as X rays, TV radiation, fallout and attempted abortions. As a cautious clinical scientist, he eventually rejected them all. Said Lenz: "There...
...crossexamination, defense attorneys hammered away at the theme that causality cannot be proved by statistics. They insisted that so long as no one knows how thalidomide actually works inside the human system, it is impossible to forge a link between the drug and a child's malformation. Lenz answered that thalidomide has been shown to cause phocomelia in rhesus and other monkey species in which the condition does not occur naturally. For doctors to seek comparable proof in man would be at least unethical and in most countries illegal. Said Lenz: "You are demanding a kind of scientific perfectionism...
Before the Public. The SEC filed fraud charges against Merrill Lynch and 14 of its officers and salesmen, including Executive Vice President Winthrop C. Lenz. For the first time, the agency also brought fraud charges against the recipients of the information. All are large institutional investors, including the Dreyfus Corp., the Madison Fund and Investors Management Co. All were accused of violating SEC regulations, issued under the 1933 Securities Act and the 1934 Securities Exchange Act, that prohibit insiders from acting on information before it becomes public knowledge...