Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kennan Line. Kennan's major theme, set forth in a recent speech to the Foreign Policy Association of Pittsburgh, is that the U.S. ought to "get over the charged and excited quality" of its relations with the Soviets. In the recent Soviet changes he sees the start of a mellowing that overtakes all militant movements. His recommendation: the U.S. should seek a new "normalcy" in learning to live with the Russians...
...Baltimore, as 22 passengers for Pittsburgh lined up to go aboard, a baggage crew unloading the plane saw pink fluid dripping from a cardboard carton marked in inch-high letters LIVE POLIO VIRUS. The plane was airborne and banking in its turn westward when ground officials got through to Johns Hopkins University's Dr. Manfred M. Mayer (to whom the shipment was consigned). Said Mayer: "It is extremely virulent and dangerous. You must take all precautions at once...
Near Cumberland, Md., Captain Tappe received an unusual order: he and Co-pilot Robert S. Hurley were to wait in the cockpit after landing at Pittsburgh until the senior agent knocked at the door. There was no explanation. Capital had alerted Dr. Allison J. Berlin to meet the plane at Pittsburgh, and he had already conferred by phone with Virus Expert Jonas Salk, who was at a meeting in New York City. Salk's advice: give each member of the crew, and the baggage smashers in Baltimore and Washington, a double dose of gamma globulin and a dose...
Then PHS and Capital began second-guessing. Had the volatilized virus been circulated by the plane's ventilating system? Nobody could be sure. Capital ordered the plane back to Washington for decontamination by the Army Chemical Corps and phoned the 22 Pittsburgh passengers, advising them to take the same shots as Salk had recommended for the crew. It advised the 124 later passengers to get a checkup with a physician, at Capital's expense...
Team: Milwaukee (by .019 percent age points) Pitcher: Friend, Pittsburgh (7-2) Batter: Long, Pittsburgh (.419) RBI: Long, Pittsburgh (36) Home Runs: Long, Pittsburgh...