Word: schwartz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cancer, leukemia's causes and cure are unknown. Largely as a result of the work of Dr. Steven ). Schwartz of Chicago's Hektoen Institute (TIME, April 11, 1960), there is growing suspicion that the villain is a virus. Dr. Schwartz injected volunteers in Cook County Jail with leukemic fluid and, he believes, developed in them immunity to the disease...
...attending the school when their illness began; four others were preschool tots with older brothers or sisters in the school; the eighth, though in public school, had friends in the parish school. Sister Mary reported her concern to the Illinois branch of the American Cancer Society, which notified Dr. Schwartz. Then Dr. Robert J. Hasterlik, of the Argonne Cancer Research Hospital, called in epidemiologists from the U.S. Public Health Service's Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta...
...victims. They have established that Niles has a normal amount of background radiation, and that the children had not had excessive X rays. They have taken blood samples from the families of the dead children and from the two victims still living, to check for possible leukemia viruses. Dr. Schwartz hopes to find evidence that contacts of the Niles victims have developed immunity to the disease. He believes that this will be shown if there are no more cases in the Niles community for four or five years. Investigation might also show that some other disease is the culprit...
...whopping $25,000 for directing the AEC's extraordinarily successful uranium prospecting and extraction program. Another $25,000, and congratulations from President Kennedy, went to a trio of Army civilian engineers for developing a nuclear explosive that has yet to be tested as a weapon. Robert M. Schwartz got $15,000 from the Secretary of the Army, and Milton E. Epton and Mrs. Irving Mayer, representing her late husband, got $5,000 each for the construction of an atomic warhead light enough for the infantry's one-man Davy Crockett rocket...
Technamation's widest application will probably be in the classroom. Schwartz is developing a course for California schools in which basic electricity will be taught through animated slides. He is also developing a method to print Technamated drawings in textbooks so students can see, for example, how the blood actually moves through the body...