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Divorced. Dr. Jonas Salk, 53, developer of the first widely used polio vaccine; by Donna Lindsay Salk, 51; on grounds of extreme cruelty; after 28 years of marriage, three children; in San Diego...
Died. Patrick P. Thienes, 83, onetime polio victim who became a champion hiker; of emphysema; in San Diego. Stricken with polio at six, Thienes began to hike at 14 to strengthen his legs and promote charities that cared for crippled children. In 1905 he covered 9,000 miles in the U.S. and Canada; in 1912 he set a record of 77 days for a coast-to-coast walk-and 50 years later broke it by walking from Los Angeles to New York in 54 days...
...addition to American Home's highly diverse collection of scores of bottled, boxed, wrapped and canned products. Founded 42 years ago in a merger of a group of drug companies, American Home soon moved beyond the medicine cabinet. Though ethical drugs, ranging from antibiotics to Equanil to Sabin polio vaccine, account for 35% of sales, and proprietary drugs supply another 17%, American Home now reaches into such diverse lines as kitchenware and candy...
...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Jonas Salk," a look at what the good doctor has been doing since he developed polio vaccine...
...uncollected garbage lay in noisome heaps on sidewalks and in doorways. Trash fires flared all over town. Rats rummaged through pyramidal piles of refuse. Public-health authorities, warning of the danger of typhoid and other diseases, proclaimed the city's first general health emergency since a 1931 polio epidemic...