Word: sabine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through exchanges of men and ideas, the Weizmann Institute has played an important role in Israel's small but determined foreign-aid program. Such activities may expand when Dr. Albert Sabin, the developer of oral polio vaccine, takes over as president next January. Israel, he told a 25th anniversary banquet in New York last month, is "a pilot plant for the hundreds of millions of people living in ever greater poverty and misery" around the world...
...incorrect. Vaccines against smallpox, yellow fever, measles (rubeola) and mumps contain live attenuated viruses -all are given by injection. In fact, the Sabin oral polio vaccine is the only commonly used live-virus vaccine in the U.S. not given by injection...
...Stanley A. Plotkin of Philadelphia's Wistar Institute noted at a Manhattan conference last week that while the virus in HPV77 is attenuated, it is still alive. This, he said, would be the first live-virus vaccine against any disease ever licensed to be given by injection. (The Sabin live-virus polio vaccine is taken by mouth.) Plotkin also noted that some lines of HPV-77 are grown in cultures of monkey-kidney cells, which may be contaminated by other, and dangerous, viruses. Not surprisingly, Wistar has its own vaccine, also live-virus but grown in cultures of human...
...latest 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...
Married. Dr. Albert Sabin, 60, developer of the oral polio vaccine; and Mrs. Jane Blach Warner, attractive Cincinnati divorcee; both for the second time (his first wife died of a drug overdose last year); in a Reform Jewish ceremony at Cincinnati's Holmes Hospital, where the bridegroom, confined to a wheelchair, was recovering from bites inflicted by his pet dachshund...