Word: salk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...readers will find old favorites (New England's shingled houses, the South's Greek Revival manors, the Southwest's adobe churches) as well as such modern masterpieces as Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple, Eero Saarinen's Dulles Airport and Louis Kahn's Salk Institute...
...with the development of the Salk and Sabin vaccines, the epidemics and panics ended almost overnight. In 1975 there were only eight proven cases of polio in the U.S., and only one death. The most distinctively American of all epidemics has been conquered...
...temperatures that produced such a disaster were merely in the mid-90s. But average June and July temperatures in Western Europe are usually much lower, and air-conditioning-an innovation that some Americans rank with the discovery of the Salk vaccine -is relatively unknown...
...Albert Sabin, developer of oral polio vaccine and originally a supporter of Ford's program, reversed himself and said that unless there is an actual outbreak, the vaccinations should be limited to "high-risk" people, notably the aged and chronically ill. A rival polio-vaccine pioneer, Dr. Jonas Salk, disagrees. Describing the vaccine as safe, he pointed out that even a partial immunization program reduces the spread of the virus by closing what he calls the immunity gap. Said he: "Vaccine is the most useful tool we have for preventing viral disease...
Ford's request had the backing of a blue-ribbon medical advisory committee-including Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, of polio vaccine fame-but critics of the program charge that the Administration left unanswered some nagging questions. Among them...