Word: polio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outside. Katherine Jackson pulls up in a car and gets out with several packages. We follow her in. She is about 5 ft. 4 in. and is wearing a blue pantsuit and a red blouse with a tie at the neck. She walks with a slight limp (she had polio as a baby). Her hair is black and rolls to the shoulders. Her skin is smooth and creamy brown like Michael's. Jackson tells her it would be good for her to have an interview with me. She says, "Oh, Joe, I don't want...
...Modern Art. His private art collection includes works by the modernists Robert Motherwell and Hans Hofmann. Rock likes to entertain at dinner parties, which attract an eclectic mixture of guests such as Opera Impresario Kurt Herbert Adler and Rolling Stone magazine Editor and Publisher Jann Wenner. Rock suffered from polio as a child, but shows no ill effects from the disease. He exercises for an hour every morning when at home and spends much of each winter skiing in Aspen, Colo., where he conducts business from a three-story, $450,000 condominium...
...Avery Fisher Hall. They gathered to honor a self-conscious "publishing event": a 616-page special issue of Esquire, hailing "50 Americans who made the difference." In attendance were some of the issue's glittery contributors, including Norman Mailer, William Whittle and Kurt Vonnegut back subjects, Polio Vaccine Pioneer Dr. Jonas Salk, Boxer Muhammad Ali, Pollster George Gallup and Feminist Betty Friedan. Perhaps the central figures, however, were Phillip Moffitt, 37, and Christopher Whittle, 36, the Tennesseans who bought out investors including then Editor Clay Felker for a reported $3.5 million in 1979, when Esquire was losing...
...State Department to transmit information on the Salk vaccine and its effectiveness to 75 nations through U.S. Ambassadors, and the World Health Organization planned to duplicate this effort. Actually, relatively few countries have facilities to make the vaccine; only a few areas in the world have a serious polio problem, for clinical polio is a disease that goes with high standards of hygiene and sanitation. Highest recent incidence abroad: Canada, New Zealand, Scandinavia. The six firms making the vaccine are selling it at cost to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, but will otherwise sell for normal profit, an average...
...Polio death rate is 1 per 100,000; rheumatic heart disease, 13; leukemia...