Word: polio
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...show business shoptalk and a few bon mots from the stars, wrapped around a demi-cheesecake photo of some starlet-may not always seem worth it. But occasionally he comes up with a genuine hard-news scoop, like his 1953 disclosure that Dr. Jonas Salk was working on a polio vaccine. Wilson heard it from Helen Hayes, whose daughter was a polio victim...
...tiny wilderness parish in the state of Washington. At the graveside, the grieving five-year-old lad felt drawn to the towering Mount Adams-"a friend, a force for me to tie to, a symbol of stability and strength." Afflicted with puny legs as a result of polio, he resolutely hiked and climbed until he had built up his limbs-and a lifelong commitment to the environment. His first teen-age encounter with the law made a lasting impression too; Orville (as he was then unhappily known) was hired by a local bluenose to solicit offers from prostitutes...
Weller cited his 1948 research work with Dr. Frederick C. Robbins on polio virus, when he had the freedom to pursue individual research that ultimately led to isolation of the virus that causes chickenpox and shingles...
...Arthur T. Hertig, professor of Pathology, said yesterday that he was opposed to the bill. He said that the human polio virus could not have been cultured had the bill been in effect in the early 1950s. Hertig explained that both the Salk vaccine and the german measles vaccines were developed from viruses obtained from human embryonic tissue...
...given special windshield stickers that would enable them to go to the head of gas lines, buy fuel on any day and fill their tanks even if the gas station had, say, a $5 limit. So far, most state authorities have paid little attention. Susan Purdy, wife of a polio victim who works as a computer programmer and lives in Roxbury, Conn., recently called the state rehabilitation department to ask about special consideration in buying gasoline. "They said they hadn't thought about the problem," she reports...