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...imply that people with Hodgkin's disease are 1) infectious and 2) incurable is to make them modern-day parallels to the lepers of yesterday. Any physician well experienced with this disease knows many patients who are alive, well and free of any evidence of it several years after treatment. Furthermore, if one considers the number of people who have been closely related to Hodgkin's patients for many years but do not have the disease, it is at least as impressive as the evidence presented in your article...
...Swallow. Given all this menace, why does swimming in polluted water not cause more widespread illness? Although doctors are just beginning to study the problem thoroughly, many believe that bathers are harmed only if they swallow the organisms. An English physician has argued that a swimmer, short of actually swallowing fecal matter, runs almost no risk of infection. Says Dr. Siegried Centerwall, head of California's San Bernardino County health department: "When officials say water is unsafe for swimming, they really mean it is unsafe for drinking...
Died. Dr. R. Walter Johnson, 72, the Negro physician whose hobby was molding promising black youngsters into tennis greats; in Lynchburg, Va. Credited with cracking the color line on public courts and in tournaments, Johnson took a teen-ager from Harlem named Althea Gibson under his wing in 1947 and prepared her for two Wimbledon and two Forest Hills titles. Six years later he befriended a frail ten-year-old named Arthur Ashe Jr. "What made me maddest," Johnson once commented, "was this idea that colored athletes . . . couldn't learn stamina or finesse...
Under the circumstances, it was no surprise that Team Physician Jules Rasinski, after being asked when he was going to cure the team's injuries, answered curtly: "I haven't got enough couches...
Mary Steichen Calderone, Sc.D., public health physician and founder of the U.S. Sex Information and Education Council...