Word: salk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immigrant youths, especially Jews, who were barred by many private colleges of the time. From the 1920s on, the "proletarian Harvard" produced more students who went on to doctorates than any other U.S. college, to say nothing of alumni as diverse as Zero Mostel, Bernard Malamud and Jonas Salk plus the current managing editor of the New York Times and the chief judge of New York State's highest court...
...paralytic polio in the U.S., and not a single death. It was the first year without a polio fatality in the half century since records have been kept, and probably since 1894, when the disease was first recognized in the U.S. By contrast, in 1952-just before the first Salk vaccine became generally available-3,145 deaths were reported, and 21,269 additional victims suffered varying degrees of paralysis...
Married. Dr. Jonas E. Salk, 55, pioneer of the first polio vaccine; and Françoise Gilot, 48, longtime (1944-54) model and mistress of Pablo Picasso, an artist of repute in her own right, whom Salk first met a year ago while she was visiting friends in California; both for the second time; in a civil ceremony in Paris...
...marching and demonstrating and some serious losses, you have not been able to force the world to accede to your demands for peace. After just five years, you have not been able to bring about that which others have been working toward for centuries. Thank goodness Lister, Pasteur and Salk didn't feel that way. What bloodbath would India have suffered had Gandhi turned from pacifism to violence after five years? If you had an ill or handicapped child, would you destroy doctors and hospitals because they could find no immediate cure...