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...member of the family had succeeded in tracing the disease as far back as Ken Swier's great-great-grandfather, Gerrit John Vandenberg, some of whose children came to the U.S. from Holland. Of Vandenberg's eight children, four inherited his ailment, including one daughter who passed it on to seven of her nine children. Last month the N.G.F. staged a reunion in South Dakota for 95 of Vandenberg's descendants, who came from five states and Argentina. On hand were Drs. William Nyhan and Roger Rosenberg of the University of California School of Medicine...
Last Generation. The reunion enabled the doctors to trace 600 people of Vandenberg ancestry and compile the most complete genetic record in med ical history. But tragedy dominated the gathering. In a daylong series of examinations, the doctors found possible early signs of the disease in twelve family members under the age of twelve, and definite symptoms in eight adults, including Joyce Eggen, 21. the pretty mother of a 14-month...
...Government simply do not trust one another very much these days. Can an atmosphere of greater confidence within the Government be achieved? Fortunately there is a pattern. It was little more than 20 years ago that a Democratic Administration under Harry Truman and key Senate Republicans led by Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan established a remarkable, non-partisan relationship of trust that permitted such historic undertakings as the Marshall Plan and the NATO treaty, and gained for them widespread public support. This kind of open policymaking can be done again, but only through more and continued emphasis on full, non-self...
...operation necessary? Not according to Captain E. Noel Preston, a pediatrician stationed at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. Writing in the A.M.A. Journal, Preston notes that the operation, performed from three to eight days after birth, can produce immediate complications in the newborn, such as hemorrhage and infection, plus later problems like painful urination and bed-wetting in older children...
...Nixon into a "new" Nixon. In other words, he changed from a rather inimically cantankerous McCarthyite witch hunter into a resolutely innovative and pragmatic national leader. It was a metamorphosis that I unwittingly thought was entirely possible. Men like Henry George, Woodrow Wilson, John Dos Passes, Al Smith, Arthur Vandenberg and John McCprmack had all managed to change their convictions; perhaps Nixon had, too. But, as your article on the President's palace guard makes clear, I was wrong...