Word: polio
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...year when 27 races for the State House all over the U.S. show a glittering entry of hardy challengers, the outstanding challenger of them all is the Republican candidate for Governor of Michigan, a polio-crippled professor of speech from Michigan State University, Paul Douglas Bagwell, 47. To succeed retiring Soapy Williams, the Democrats have selected blond, boyish John Swainson, 35, Michigan's lieutenant governor, who is the handpicked choice of the U.A.W. The candidates are attractive, the issues are sharp, and Michigan's election shapes up as 1960's hottest state race...
Sunrise at Campobello. As in his stage version, Dore Schary worships rather than evaluates Franklin Roosevelt during the period when he conquers polio, setting the mold for the President-to-be. But for all this, the film offers rich, commercial entertainment, ranging from heroic drama to soap opera to political pleading...
...York's Lederle Laboratories, using strains developed by Dr. Herald R. Cox. These have been put into a one-swallow, trivalent vaccine that 413,316 residents of Florida's Dade County (Miami and environs) took early this year. So far, there has been no case of paralytic polio in the county among the vaccinated, except seven which, say doctors, were already incubating when the victims took the vaccine...
...next summer, or fall at the latest, Americans will be able to take their polio vaccination in three month-apart swallows of live-virus vaccine instead of being dependent on the hypodermic needle for injections of the Salk killed-virus vaccine. Last week Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney of the U.S. Public Health Service said he had been convinced that it is now possible to manufacture a live-virus vaccine "suitable for use in the U.S." Whether this unexpectedly abrupt decision was the result of mounting evidence of safety or of pressure on the Government by live-virus advocates...
...like the Salk, is grown in monkey kidney cells, has been tested on a small scale in the U.S. but used wholesale in the U.S.S.R., where almost 80 million people have now taken it in various forms and on different dosage schedules. Full protection against all three types of polio requires three virus strains, one of each type. Dr. Sabin has tried giving them separately at short intervals, as well as in a three-in-one dose. Best results to date have been with the spaced, single-type doses, and it is expected that this regimen will be followed...