Word: seale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effects of thalidomide on unborn children have been known for almost seven years, and the drug's manufacturers are even now on trial in Alsdorf, Germany (TIME, Sept. 6). Still, no one has been able to explain just what it was in the tranquilizer-sleeping pill that produced seal-flipper limbs in children. Last week a German-born investigator with a grandfatherly manner was finally able to pinpoint to the American Chemical Society how thalidomide did its damage...
...look is merry, but the merriment is diluted. Often a pained bewilderment clouds his cherubic look, and his mouth tightens as if to seal in the explosiveness and confusion behind it. Despite the dancing eyes, the tireless smile, the bouncy spirit, the effusive greetings ("Well, bless your heart," "Thank you, thank you, thank you"), the man the Democratic Party has nominated for President of the U.S. is not to be dismissed simply as a glib, out-of-touch relic of a political era long past...
...Seal Limbs. After three months of frustrating legalities, the people in the crowded courtroom saw for themselves the naked evidence of thalidomide's devastating effects. Dr. Lenz showed color slides of children with no arms, or no legs, or only seal-like flippers where arms and legs should be. Some of the pictures came from post-mortems and showed malformations of the heart and other internal organs...
Relentlessly, Lenz assembled the evidence against thalidomide. Phocomelia (seal limbs) had been one of the rarest of congenital defects until 1960, the year after thalidomide went on the market. Then the incidence of the condition increased exponentially, and Lenz had a damning graph showing that it went up on a curve exactly paralleling that of thalidomide sales-but with an eight-month time lag. Lenz explained that he explored other suggested explanations for the increase in phocomelia, such as X rays, TV radiation, fallout and attempted abortions. As a cautious clinical scientist, he eventually rejected them all. Said Lenz: "There...
...Secret Deals. In the eyes of ordinary Czechoslovaks, Tito's visit put seal and confirmation on the reality of their triumph at Cierna in defense of their new freedoms. Until he arrived, many Czechoslovaks had found the sudden letup in Soviet pressure almost too good to be believed. Young Czechoslovaks milled around Prague's Jan Hus monument, puzzling over what had happened. The nagging suspicion lingered that their leaders had undertaken a secret sellout to the Soviets that only later would become apparent. Those fears were reinforced by the fact that Dubček and his colleagues purposefully...