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Heeding the advice of health officials, Charles Gabig, 71, a retired telephone engineer, and two housewives, Mrs. Julia Bucci, 75, and Mrs. Ella Michael, 74, last week joined hundreds of other elderly people in line for swine-flu shots at an Allegheny County clinic on Pittsburgh's south side. Within six hours all three were dead, apparently of heart or lung problems. Soon similar reports were coming in from other parts of the country. Half a day after getting his flu shot, an elderly Floridian collapsed in a bowling alley and died. In Michigan, three aged people succumbed...
Still, the three deaths at the same Pittsburgh clinic on the same day were hard to explain by any reckoning. Though other Pennsylvania health authorities disputed him, Allegheny County Coroner Cyril Wecht speculated that the shots might have been improperly injected into a vein (and thus directly into the blood) rather than into muscle tissue, possibly accelerating any adverse reactions. Even Dr. David Sencer, director of Atlanta's Center for Disease Control (CDC), which is directing the nationwide inoculation program, acknowledged that while he felt the Pittsburgh deaths were probably coincidences, "we can't sit back and assume...
Within hours after news of the initial deaths, at least nine states closed flu-shot clinics. Meanwhile, samples of vaccine used in Pittsburgh-from a lot labeled 913339A, produced by Detroit's Parke, Davis & Co., one of four manufacturers-were rushed to the Food and Drug Administration's biologies bureau in Rockville, Md., where they were tested and given a clean bill of health. Reassured, several states ordered clinics reopened...
Pennsylvania, like many other states, repealed criminal sanctions for adultery years ago. But it still recognized the common law right of an aggrieved spouse to sue for "criminal conversation." That was the doctrine James Fadgen, then 30, a Pittsburgh teacher, invoked when he discovered that his wife Bonnie, 26, was sleeping with George Lenkner. His suit asked for compensatory and punitive damages of an unspecified amount. The case aroused more than casual interest because Lenkner, 31, was the Roman Catholic priest who had presided at the Fadgens' 1972 marriage. When a Pittsburgh court found in Fadgen's favor...
...testimony of opponents is that Patriot blockers do far more. Neither Oakland's defenders nor Pittsburgh's Fearsome Foursome were able to dump...