Word: staphylococcus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...labs at Pearl River, N.Y. There the tedious and time-consuming process of searching for medicinally useful compounds began with the preparation of crude extracts. It will continue through a variety of screening tests that will determine whether the extract is active against such familiar microbes as the staphylococcus and other causes of human disease...
Goldberg, perhaps the most popular and underplayed member of the Crimson squad, recovered from a staphylococcus infection at the season's start to become the top halfback reserve. Manchester, who has been plugging away at defensive safety for three frustrating seasons, was rewarded with a promotion this week, from nowhere to Tom Williamson's understudy. And Vitale, who impersonated six All-Ivies in practice last year, still helps coach Loyal Park by running opposition offenses against the first-string defenders he never became...
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but accident is the midwife. Take penicillin. Nobody could, if Alexander Fleming's staphylococcus culture hadn't spoiled. Crepes suzette would be only soggy pancakes if Chef Henri Charpentier's sauce had not caught fire. The X ray, vulcanized rubber, LSD-even America, for that matter-were all discovered by accident, and people might still be wondering why their feet are attached to the ground if an apple had not conked Isaac Newton on the head...
Other researchers believe high-pressure oxygen may be useful in destroying lingering tetanus bacilli, and doctors at Maumee Vallery Hospital, Toledo, report that in some cases it is effective against oxygen-breathing microbes, including Staphylococcus aureus-"hospital staph." There is even evidence that high-pressure oxygen may help to dispel massive blood clots in the lungs, help to reverse the effects of severe heart attacks, and enhance the effectiveness of certain drugs in the treatment of certain skin cancers (melanomas...
...Kennedy camp at the Los Angeles convention. Then it is the Republicans' turn, and Dick Nixon steps onto the resin. There is the anguish of the Vice President, halted at the very beginning of his campaign, in the midst of his triumphant tour of the South, by a staphylococcus infection, and there is the bathos of his speech in Centralia, Ill., recalling the story of how his father decided to buy his brother new shoes instead of a hoped-for pony...