Word: polio
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Historically, Democrats won by embracing disparate and even warring factions. The New Deal coalition included urban ethnics, Southern Protestants, dirt farmers, Jewish intellectuals, illiterate coal miners, poor blacks and virulent racists. Improbably, they rallied behind a Groton-and Harvard-educated polio victim with a patrician accent...
Measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough, diphtheria, polio. One by one in this century the scourges of youth have fallen before the marvel of vaccines. But there has been no similar victory against the last of childhood's common infectious diseases: chickenpox, or as it is known medically, varicella. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the virus-caused illness strikes about 3 million youngsters each year, approximately as many children as there are babies born...
...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...