Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...succeed the Salk killed-virus injections as the first line of defense against poliomyelitis reached the U.S. last week. Biggest offensive was launched in Miami and surrounding Dade County, where the entire under-40 population, estimated at 520,000, was marshaled in an effort to show that a single swallow of the three-way vaccine is not only safe but superior to Salk. By week's end the campaign's sponsors tallied more than 75,000 who had taken the vaccine. They hoped to run the total close to the half-million mark before April, which would make...
...Best known and gravest: pneumonia.) Despite the fact that people swallow an infinite variety of pills, tablets, capsules and syrups, medical scientists are still far from agreed as to which of them are best -or even whether any treatment for uncomplicated viral infections is desirable. A runny nose is an uncomfortable and socially embarrassing symptom, but the increased fluid secretion by the nasal mucosa is, some experts believe, one of the body's defenses against viral invasion. Drying up the mucosa (usually with anti-histamines), they say, may simply prolong the battle. The fever that results from many virus...
...Colombia President Lleras Camargo, one of the hemisphere's most sober thinkers, believes that the U.S. should swallow hard and lend money for land reform across the hemisphere. "That is where the backwardness of our countries is," he says. "In the fields...
...line of caricature capitalists. In fact, the weakness of the picture as social satire is that too often it tickles where it ought to jab. Only in the last reel does the customer stop giggling, as in the bottom of the champagne glass he suddenly sees something hard to swallow. The moviemakers make him swallow it anyway. Oddly enough, Germans have not shrunk from the experience. Rosemary is the second most popular picture made in Germany since...
...last week's end, Barker's colleagues had been forced to swallow their scorn. Chubby Eddie Barker, 32, had got himself the news beat of many a long month: in an exclusive taped interview with Barker, Frances Spears confessed that she had secretly visited her husband in a Dallas hotel nearly two months after he had presumably perished, along with 41 others, in a National Airlines DC-7B that crashed last Nov. 16 in the Gulf of Mexico. How Barker got his story was almost as interesting as the story itself...