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Neurologists David C. Poskanzer and Robert S. Schwab of Massachusetts General Hospital predicted in 1961 that Parkinson's disease would all but dis appear by 1980. Some medical authorities were skeptical, for they had seen no change in the number of Parkinson's cases over the years. Poskanzer and Schwab have now reiterated their earlier conclusion, and cite new evidence to support...
Basis of the Poskanzer-Schwab prediction was an intensive study that convinced the two researchers that a majority of Parkinsonism victims developed the disease as a result of the worldwide epidemic of encephalitis lethargica that lasted from 1915 to 1926. By 1931, the virus that caused the epidemic had inexplicably died out, apparently completely. Many of the epidemic's victims who were mildly infected suffered delayed nerve damage, the two doctors believe. In some cases the damage has taken three or four decades to manifest itself as Parkinson's disease. If sufferers from the disease were indeed restricted...
...Goldberg's workers ceaselessly prowled the state for weeks in an effort to make contacts for Romney, and now, says Goldberg, "there's more organization for Romney than most people have two months before the primary." He may need it. Nixon for President Committee Chairman Dr. Gaylord Parkinson has been touring New Hampshire in a rented car, rounding up workers and seeking to widen the former Vice President's early lead. Moreover, there is talk that California's Governor Ronald Reagan, getting less and less bashful on the subject of the presidency, might go into...
...Defying Parkinson. Quaintly enough, the B.I.S. keeps its books in nonexistent gold Swiss francs-which disappeared with devaluation in the '30s. But its profits are real: $16 million last year -partly from lucrative investments, partly from buying and selling gold and foreign currencies for its members. Among other accomplishments, the bank has also managed to defy Parkinson's law. Despite a vast increase in its responsibilities, the B.I.S. staff has grown only 5% (to 206 employees) since the bank's birth...
...directing the company's wartime expansion, then resigned in 1945 to take on the formidable task of planning the revival of Germany's shattered steel industry, later went to Japan from 1947 to 1948 to do much the same job as a private consultant; of Parkinson's disease; at Sea Island...