Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should like to propose that we turn over the billions of dollars appropriated for the military budget next year to the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, the Multiple Sclerosis Society, the Birth Defects Center, the Muscular Dystrophy Association...
Clue in the Neck. Dr. Szent-Gyorgyi (pronounced St. Georgie) entered the cancer field almost by chance. After he fled Hungary's Communist control in 1947, he was able to resume at Woods Hole his long work on muscle. Concentrating on one of the commonest of muscular diseases, myasthenia gravis, he had a clue. Sometimes a victim of "MG" does better after his thymus gland is removed. Searching for the explanation, Szent-Gyorgyi, who has a Cambridge Ph.D. in biochemistry besides his M.D., spent years doing delicate chemical dissections of the thymus glands of calves, supplied by Chicago...
...help his ailing back, Kennedy has for two years been doing special calisthenics under the guidance of Dr. Hans Kraus, a Vienna-trained New York physician who thinks that much back trouble is related to muscular weakness.* On his recent trip to Europe, Kennedy noted how greatly his back had improved in the course of those two years. He endured the jostling and the strenuous pace without noticing any pains, and upon his return he exultantly told friends that his back was no longer troubling him. With Dr. Kraus's O.K., he decided to take up golf again. Last...
Back to Quiz. NBC will also begin a drama series about a blackboard-jungle Tarzan, Mr. Novak, with James Franciscus as the muscular teach. Then the viewer can graduate to ABC's Channing, a university with ivy and all-"a world in microcosm," says ABC, "reflecting an alltime interest in the college scene." Thus prepared, the viewer is at last ready for the first big-money quiz show in five years. ABC, figuring TV has outlived the shame of its scandals, has plunged on a new quiz program named for its top take, 100 Grand. The network nostalgically insists...
...City of Hope have shown mosaicism in women who suffer from a form of Mediterranean anemia. But this is only one of at least 58 inborn defects that appear to result from defects in X chromosomes. Among others: some forms of color blindness and of anemia, hemophilia, muscular dystrophy, deafness...