Word: pneumonia
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...HONORS for making the breakthrough discovery went to a traditional bacteriologist. Taking purified DNA extracted from the chromosomes of dead pneumonia bacteria, Rockefeller Institute's Oswald T. Avery and his associates showed that it could transform other, normally harmless bacteria into virulent ones. The experiment indicated that it was DNA, and not protein, that carried the genetic message. So unexpected was that finding that even Avery was at first unwilling to accept it. Eight years later, Alfred Hershey and his assistant Martha Chase demonstrated that a virus' DNA could, by taking over a bacterium, also nullify the cell's genetic...
What followed, however, was altogether too much. Berger's friends were told to leave the country. His wife died in a hospital, after surgery, of bronchial pneumonia leading to cardiac collapse. She had been under guard for nine weeks, although no charges were brought against her, and Berger suspects that better medical attention might have saved her. Last week, after his own long incarceration without bail, Berger was acquitted of the charge of possession of the drug because there was no evidence that it belonged to him. He was also cleared of having allowed his villa "Casa Degli Angeli...
Died. Dr. Brock Chisholm, 74, controversial Canadian psychiatrist who from 1948 to 1953 served as director general of the World Health Organization; of pneumonia; in Victoria, B.C. Chisholm was one of the first to warn that world population growth could eventually outstrip food supplies unless there was global family planning. Best known for his attacks on what he regarded as society's sillier ideas, he stirred a furor by arguing that any child encouraged to believe in Santa Claus has his ability to think permanently injured. On superstition: "There is hardly a hotel in New York that...
...Swier's family have discovered in their mid-20s that they were doomed by a lethal legacy. Spinal cerebellar degeneration attacks the central nervous system, first affecting balance and coordination, then impairing speech and finally breathing. The process lasts about 15 years, usually ending in death with pneumonia. The best doctors can do is to prolong the victim's life. They cannot even diagnose the disease before it appears-generally at an age when the patient has already had children. The disease can be passed on only by those actively afflicted; half of their children are likely...
Died. Samuel Hay Kauffmann, 72, president of Washington's Evening Star Newspaper Co. from 1949 to 1963; of pneumonia; in Washington, D.C. Kauffmann's business acumen helped make the Star a continuing financial success, though it has never challenged the editorial eminence of the Washington Post...