Word: polio
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There is no real shortage of food, but much of it goes to feed the roundworms, whipworms and hookworms that live in the bodies of nine out of ten villagers. A newborn baby has only a fifty-fifty chance of surviving its first year. Tuberculosis, polio, whooping cough and measles are all commonplace. So is the sight of children carrying tiny coffins to a graveyard...
...growing suspicion that mem bers of the herpes family of viruses may play a role in human cancer (TIME, April 23) was heightened even more last week by the revelations of a noted medical researcher. Dr. Albert Sabin, developer of the live-virus polio vaccine, told the National Academy of Sciences that the herpes simplex Type I virus (responsible for cold sores) may also cause cancers of the lip, mouth and throat, while the herpes Type II virus (which causes genital infections and has already been associated with cancer of the cervix) should also be considered suspect in other cancers...
...style political novel rarely concentrated on a single man; it was narrative or panoramic, not analytical. The new politics born in the last decade often seems based on personality, so Wilfrid Sheed's new-style novel is the portrait of one man, Senator Brian Casey. Crippled by polio since the age of 15, Casey turns his deformity into a power base after he discovers that "people will always be kind". But this childhood trauma is the source of Casey's instability as well as his appeal, and eventually leads to his decision to throw away his chances for the Presidency...
...introducing polio and making Casey Irish, Sheed means to conjure up the myths of Roosevelt and Kennedy. But he accomplishes little with this powerful material beyond a few superficial parallels between the attitudes of the polio victim and the politician. The best of these comparisons suggests that both outwardly trust the advice of experts, but privately count on a miracle to solve their difficulties...
...including Joseph P. Lash's first volume. Elliott treats this as a great revelation and reminds readers about it perhaps a dozen times in his small book. Father, on the other hand, matured into a lusty chap whose interest and prowess were undiminished even by the aftereffects of polio. For the sake of skeptics, Elliott cites a medical report and even translates the Latin...