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...decade since Virologist Jonas Salk perfected his anti-polio vaccine, the disease has been all but wiped out in the U.S. Reported cases of paralytic polio have dramatically declined, from 18,000 cases in 1954 to a mere 94 last year; the chance of getting polio today is less than the risk of diphtheria, malaria or typhoid fever. Last week, on the tenth anniversary of the approval of the Salk vaccine for general use, congressional leaders presented Dr. Salk with a joint resolution of the Senate and House expressing the nation's gratitude. The U.S. Public Health Service...
...triumph, however, is not likely to be duplicated in the control of cancer, heart disease and mental illness, Dr. Salk told the National Press Club in Washington. Those problems, he said, arise largely from complex internal causes rather than from a relatively simple external cause such as the virus of polio. But it is just such problems, "tied to evolution, aging and the molecular mechanisms of the cell," that Dr. Salk and his associates are now at tacking at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego...
California virologists: Italian-born Dr. Renato Dulbecco, 50, now at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, and Dr. (of veterinary medicine) Harry Rubin, 38, of the University of California. Starting with viruses that infect bacteria, Dr. Dulbecco went on to show the mechanism by which polyoma virus, which causes many animal cancers, infects cells. Most important was the striking and unexpected finding that the virus itself, which has a nucleus of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), does not need to multiply in order to cause cancer...
...should like to propose that we turn over the billions of dollars appropriated for the military budget next year to the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, the Multiple Sclerosis Society, the Birth Defects Center, the Muscular Dystrophy Association...
...cover guests, plea followed plea to hold back time-consuming applause until the end of each turn. It was all in vain. The crowd greeted each name with a round of approval, especially heavy for such favorites as Douglas MacArthur, Cuban Exile Leader José Miró Cardona, Jonas Salk, Green Bay Packer Coach Vince Lombardi, General Omar Bradley, Judge Harold Medina and Casey Stengel. By the time Hope took over, midnight was near and introductions had to be com pressed to a simple announcement of each cover subject's name. But characteristically, Hope could not resist bringing...