Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Capital Confusion A muscular dystrophy victim named Renato Ruieroz made the 800-mile trip from Rio by wheelchair, and arrived in time. A relay of athletes ran a flaming torch from Salvador, 1.800 road miles away, as 100,000 Brazilians converged last week to hear President Juscelino Kubi-tschek proclaim: "I declare inaugurated under the protection of God the city of Brasilia." President Dwight Eisenhower, like dozens of other heads of state, cabled his congratulations "on the splendid pioneering spirit of Brazil...
...normal people, he said, the hydrocortisone output goes up sharply in the early morning hours to a peak around 6 a.m., then falls gradually to a nighttime resting level. In a rheumatoid arthritis victim, this pattern is generally reversed. Lacking adaptive ability, the patient reacts with a flare-up of disease when the cortisone tide ebbs. This may happen after delivery to a woman who has been free of arthritis symptoms during pregnancy. The letdown phenomenon is also seen in patients after long-term cortisone treatment...
...years at least 50 workers have been sent to Coventry for one breach of union solidarity or another. The treatment can be tragically effective. In 1956 a railroad engine driver named Jack Heginbotham put his head in a gas oven after living in silence one solid year. Says another victim: "I have seen grown men standing still and doffing their caps as I passed by to show me that as far as they were concerned I was dead...
...appealed to inmates of Cook County Jail, got 14 volunteers. "Since we are trying to find the answers to human leukemia, we must make tests in man," said Dr. Schwartz. "And we believed there was a minimum of risk to the prisoners." His research teams injected a leukemia victim's fluid into the prisoners' forearm four times, and twice took a pint of their blood...
...April 6 U.S. Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.)* Robert (Elfego Baca) Loggia and Claude (Paris Precinct) Dauphin team up in How to Make a Killing, a lighthearted murder mystery set in 19th century France. Even the uninitiate can be sure that the victim will not be Guest Star Eva Gabor...