Word: polio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there came before the Democratic Convention of 1932 a man who was so wasted by polio that he could not stand erect without leg braces, but who promised his stricken nation "a new order of competence and courage," and who declared: "This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms...
...vice-presidential nomination in the doomed 1920 campaign of James C. Cox. The next year, after two long days of sailing and swimming at his summer home on Campobello Island in New Brunswick, he suffered a chill that was misdiagnosed, then the horrifying paralysis of polio. He was told that he would never walk again...
...year ago Charles Crandall, 73, was spending most of his days staring at the walls of his San Francisco apartment, subsisting on solitary meals eaten out of cans. Crippled by a childhood bout with polio and suffering from heart disease, he seemed destined for a nursing home. Had that been his fate, he says, "I don't think I would be living now." Instead, California social services agencies enrolled him in a new kind of program for the elderly that allowed him to continue living in his own home. Three days a week, from...
...foot-and-mouth may finally be checked. Last week Agriculture Secretary John Block announced that researchers from the California gene-splicing firm Genentech, Inc., in collaboration with his department's scientists, had produced a safe, effective vaccine against the disease. Like polio viruses, the tiny virus that causes foot-and-mouth has a coating of four proteins. A team of Agriculture Department scientists, led by Biochemist Howard Bachrach, had isolated one of them, calling it VP3 (for virus protein). Injecting the substance into test animals, they found it created immunity without causing infection. But using it was risky, because...
...life sounds hard, Forss describes it with the abstract air of a man in love with his work. Besides, his knockabout past has immunized him to mere annoyances. Born in the South Bronx, Forss endured a bout of polio at age three, and the loss of his carpenter father, who took to thievery, using a hand-carved wooden pistol, and was deported back to Sweden after a fling at bank robbery. His Italian mother remarried, and George moved through a series of orphanages and boys' homes. "Let's face it," he says, "we were a welfare family...