Word: polio
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...1950s have, if anything, worsened. The population density of the Southeast Bronx-500,000 people crammed into 5 sq. mi.-is among the nation's highest. Housing, health care, employment and education are woefully substandard. Fifty percent of the children under six have never been immunized against polio. Forty percent of the area's families are on welfare. More than 10% of residents between 15 and 44 are heroin addicts. Says one of Mayor John Lindsay's minority specialists: "The Puerto Rican experience in New York has been a total disaster...
Died. Basil O'Connor, 80, founder of the March of Dimes; in Phoenix. Research into the cause and treatment of polio was a poorly financed, haphazard affair when O'Connor and his crippled law partner Franklin D. Roosevelt founded the Warm Springs, Ga., therapy center in 1927. This led to the formation eleven years later of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, with O'Connor as its chief. The organization raised $870 million for treatment and research and sponsored the development of vaccines by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin. Though he also served as president...
Douglas continued to be trusted by Berrigan and his associates. In one of Father Phil's letters to Sister Elizabeth he refers to Douglas as "the local minister with portfolio" and describes him as "the best thing hereabouts since polio vaccine. His ministrations have been no less than providential." Douglas came up with lots of seemingly helpful advice. He said that when he told Berrigan that the Washington caper would necessarily entail some violence, the priest agreed. Berrigan also agreed, said Douglas, to using a gun "but suggested the possible use of blanks. I advised him that...
...polio vaccines until now have been made from killed or attenuated viruses grown in cultures of cells taken from monkey kidneys. The process and the vaccines are highly effective, but manufacturers-and some physicians-fear that other viruses lurking in the monkey kidneys may slip into the vaccine with unpredictable effects on the human recipient. One stray monkey virus has turned up in some vaccine samples. Many virologists believe that it would be better to make the vaccine from viruses grown in human cells, specifically in a strain developed by Dr. Leonard Hayflick and Dr. Paul S. Moorhead. Originally derived...
...idea of a new model attracted Coles because he did not care for the old one. An early experience crystallized that feeling. Helping to care for polio victims during the 1955 epidemic in Boston, he noticed that the patients kept talking about how they would soon be well, though they were obviously paralyzed for life. They were using what psychiatrists call "the mechanism of denial." But to Coles, that term really said very little about the patients. "You have to think of what they