Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. The Marquess of Salisbury, 78, the Tory blueblood whose high-pitched stammer echoed through British Parliament for more than four decades; of fibrosis of the lung; in Hertfordshire, England. Salisbury belonged to a family of politicians whose influence dated back 400 years to Elizabethan times. A man of rigid principle, he resigned from government in 1938 to protest his party's appeasement of Mussolini. He was later called back to office by Winston Churchill, became leader of the House of Lords, and in 1957 played a pivotal role in the selection of, Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister...
...rich complexity of the lives of those often viewed in one-dimensional, socially autistic terms unravels, it is sometimes impossible to keep from being profoundly moved. Listen as Sally, a ten year-old mountain girl, talks about her uncle back in Kentucky who has the dreaded "black lung" disease coal miners are prone to contract: "I don't think I'll ever live in a mansion, no. It doesn't seem fair that only a few people have houses like that, big ones with a garden all around. If we had a garden, we could play on the grass...
...human recipient. One stray monkey virus has turned up in some vaccine samples. Many virologists believe that it would be better to make the vaccine from viruses grown in human cells, specifically in a strain developed by Dr. Leonard Hayflick and Dr. Paul S. Moorhead. Originally derived from the lung tissue of a Swedish aborted fetus, this strain is pure, will reproduce itself 50 times and allows a huge yield of cellular material. Britain already uses polio vaccine produced in these cells, and the U.S.S.R. is switching to it. But for years the U.S. regulatory agency, the Division of Biologies...
Medical worker Nguyen Thi Vinh was having lunch with her family when a bomb fell on her house killing her husband and three of her children. She miraculously survived after surgeons removed two pieces of shrapnel from her left lung. Only one daughter, also wounded, now remains in the family...
Coles' influence reaches beyond his profession and beyond the academic and intellectual communities. After reading a Coles article called "Black Lung: Mining as a Way of Death," for example, a fuel company executive set up a new health plan for workers in the West Virginia and Pennsylvania mines he controls. In Washington, Coles is of ten consulted by powerful Congressmen of both parties. His testimony helped to launch the hunger crusade in the South in 1967 and to keep the migrant health program going when it was about to die in Congress two years...