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...Americans weren't alarmed over the energy crisis. Why, any day now some Jonas Salk at Con Edison will find a way to make electricity from turnip greens, and our cars will run pollution-free for a month on just water and a tiny pill...
...Roosevelt founded the Warm Springs, Ga., therapy center in 1927. This led to the formation eleven years later of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, with O'Connor as its chief. The organization raised $870 million for treatment and research and sponsored the development of vaccines by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin. Though he also served as president of the American National Red Cross for a time, O'Connor made the National Foundation his life's work. With the threat of polio virtually eliminated by the early '60s, the foundation turned to combatting birth defects...
...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...