Word: polio
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...might have added, the childhood as well. "I was a shy, ugly kid who led a big fantasy life," Cher, who was christened Cherlin, recalls. "I thought I was an angel from heaven sent to cure polio. When Dr. Salk did it, I was really pissed off." Even before that she was trying to woo the world through performance. "From the time I could talk, I began to sing. Singing just came from the inside-something I'd do without thinking whenever I felt good or was really blue. Dancing? Well, it released my tensions...
Iron Will. Associates remember that in 1949, when his horse fell on him, crushing 23 of his 24 ribs, Douglas was undaunted: he was back on the bench six months later. In childhood he confounded doctors' expectations that his polio-stricken legs would forever be useless. In addition, Douglas knows that a Ford-nominated successor might well tip the court into pronounced conservativism, a result that would seem a disaster to the old liberal...
...mottoes of a scientist that if something seems too good to be true, there is a high probability that it is not true. Few scientists appreciate the aptness of this more than Dr. Albert Sabin, 68, developer of the live-virus polio vaccine. Eighteen months ago, Sabin declared triumphantly that he and a colleague had found convincing evidence that the ubiquitous herpes simplex viruses, which cause cold sores and genital infections, also cause human cancers. Since then, Sabin has been unable to reproduce the earlier laboratory findings. As a result, he is publishing in the Proceedings of the National Academy...
...some inoculations before his trip to Zaire this month to fight George Foreman. "I hate 'em; let's get 'em over with," protested Ali in mock terror as he awaited his bout with the needle. The challenger endured his prophylaxis against smallpox, yellow fever and polio, then grumbled, "My fights don't take this long...
...nothing unusual about the technique; experimenters explain that taking a culture from dead fetal tissue is a standard procedure. Twenty years before, Thomas H. Weller, Strong Professor of Tropical Public Health, and John F. Enders, University Professor Emeritus, earned a Nobel Prize for their efforts to isolate the polio virus, employing a similar technique...