Word: salk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years later. But his greatest success came in 1954, when he supervised (he unprecedented field trials (covering 1,800,000 children in 44 states at an expense of $7,500,000) that validated the effectiveness of the polio vaccine developed by one of Francis' former pupils: Jonas Salk...
...college at once set high admission standards and offered free education to thousands of immigrants' children who survived the grinding competition. A kind of proletarian Harvard, it produced a long list of financiers, writers and scientists, including Bernard Baruch, Felix Frankfurter, Upton Sinclair, Lewis Mumford and Jonas Salk. As the flagship campus of the 15-college City University of New York, it now has 20,000 students...
...nation of organizers, the U.S. has harnessed its new scientific knowledge to all kinds of new technology: the production of electricity by nuclear energy, communication by satellite, the Salk vaccine, oral contraceptives and a whole new spectrum of antibiotics - to say nothing of learning how to put a man on the moon...
...removers. They all deal in intensively competitive products, and their problem is the kind of problems they treat. Stuffed sinuses, after all, are not exactly a popular subject, but that does not stop the admen from hawking some nasal spray as if it were the greatest breakthrough since the Salk vaccine...
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...