Word: myron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...waltz to warm up, a jitterbug for the cardiovascular good, a waltz to cool down. "I never cared for any other kind of music," said a woman of some years named Barbara Rudolph, "and I never had a husband who did either." Just then she was dipped by Myron Perlstine, who smiled despite the tune, which was I'll Never Smile Again...
...through a combination of intimidation and expertly applied guilt. "Someday you'll remember how you sucked away a mother's life!" she cries at her frustrated and repressed son, Ralph, still at home at 22 and still stuck working in rich Uncle Morty's garment warehouse. Ralph's father, Myron, is an ineffectual nebbish; his sister Hennie a nasty, frustrated romantic; and his grandfather, old Jake, an unreconstructed Bolshie from the days of the Wobblies...
Traditional diet experts think hair analysis, saliva tests and the like are the scientific equivalent of junk food. "There are a lot of way-out quacks who are making a fortune," warns Dr. Myron Winick, a nutrition expert at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Though hundreds of thousands have entered the field, nutrition counseling is largely ungoverned. The unrestricted binge may be ending, however. Before 1982 no states had regulations; now 14 do. The most prestigious organization, the American Dietetic Association, has 43,000 members who have passed a certification exam...
...Everyone went, 'Oh God, here we go again,' " said Dr. Thomas Zuck, director of the Food and Drug Administration's division of blood and blood products. But Dr. Myron ("Max") Essex of the Harvard School of Public Health, a leading AIDS researcher, feels Montagnier's warning is premature. Essex, who last spring announced that his research team had discovered in Senegal a virus that is related to LAV-II, criticized the announcement as "unnecessarily frightening." Citing the fact that Montagnier's unpublished data were based on fewer than 100 patients, Essex said, "I don't want to put it down...
Professor of Virology Myron E. Essex, who made milestone discoveries in the initial quest to identify the AIDS virus, will travel to New York City in November to accept the Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award...