Word: rods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more trials in man, and the rate is expected soon to hit 60,000 a year. First test for every compound involves at least 18 mice, and the consumption of mice is enormous-more than 2,000,000 last year. All must be of pure, inbred strains. One of Rod Heller's worries is that the supply of these precious mice may not keep pace with the demand...
Biggest question in prevention today is how the rise in lung cancer-virtually confined to heavy-smoking men-can be checked and reversed. Rod Heller, bureaucrat and son of a tobacco-growing state (although he has never smoked), has weighed all the conflicting evidence and arrived at a forthright conclusion: "Statistical evidence, supported by laboratory findings, has shown that excessive cigarette smoking can be a cause of lung cancer, and that the greater the consumption of cigarettes, the greater the risk." Practical Dr. Heller sees little prospect of changing U.S. smoking habits, pins his hopes for lung-cancer prevention...
...decisive, exploitable breakthrough, that the army of investigators deployed in it suffer more frustration than most men on medicine's frontiers. The emotional anguish inseparable from cancer heightens their tension. The result is more than average jealousy and backbiting among cancer fighters. As chief coordinator in this setting, Rod Heller is a near ideal choice. Says a leading independent cancer specialist: "He doesn't make people mad. He's a diplomat." Says Heller himself: "You could call me a reasonably relaxed person...
Born at what he calls a "wide place in the road" named Fair Play, S.C. (40 miles southwest of Greenville), Heller is the son and grandson of physicians, had a brother and an uncle with M.D.s. Yet when he entered Clemson College at 16, Rod went into engineering. He switched to the family tradition in time to get his M.D. from Atlanta's Emory University in 1929. Joining up with the U.S. Public Health Service in 1931, he began hopscotching around on two-year tours of anti-VD duty. In 1934 Dr. Heller married Susie May Ayres, daughter...
...easy, the lithe, 23-year-old Peruvian with the classic Inca features can blow a match with the best of them. But his charging, slashing game stiffens under pressure, and at Wimbledon the going was tough enough to challenge his mastery. Ranged against him were Australia's nimble Rod Laver, 20, and dark-haired Roy Emerson, 22, and America's moody, towering (6 ft. 4 in.) Barry MacKay. 23, Olmedo's Davis Cup teammate against Australia last winter. MacKay did not get beyond the semifinals, wilting before Laver's dogged retrieving, and that left Wimbledon...