Word: polio
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...Adam Polio is camping out for the summer in a deserted house at the top of a hill "like one of those sick animals that make a canny retreat into some refuge and watch stealthily for danger." He does almost nothing at all, and does it so well that his perceptions suffer strange and vivid changes as in the first symptoms of paranoia or LSD poisoning...
...Judge Thurgood Marshall, 55, who successfully argued against segregated schools before the U.S. Supreme Court ten years ago, granted the N.A.A.C.P.s Liberty Bell Award; Physiologist Wallace Fenn, 70, who demonstrated loss of muscular tension with in creasing speed of contraction, and Dr. Albert Sabin, 57, who developed the oral polio vaccine, both recipients of $40,000 Antonio Feltrinelli awards presented by the Lincei National Academy, Italy's leading arts and sciences institute...
High-risk insurance was pioneered in the U.S. by Philadelphia's Insurance Co. of North America, which paid off every cent on a $300,000 "catastrophe" policy when the Boy Scouts' 1935 Jamboree was called off because of a polio epidemic. The business of writing policies on highly unlikely contingencies, how ever, for years remained almost totally dominated by Lloyd's of London. No longer. High-risk insurance is becoming an increasingly important part of the U.S. insurance business, and the dozen or so American firms that now specialize in it already account for fully a third...
Contrary to common belief, it is not outward bleeding from a wound that cripples and eventually kills most hemophiliacs; it is internal bleeding, especially into the joints, that does the damage. "This," said Manhattan's Dr. Henry H. Jordan, "is more crippling than either polio or arthritis. But it's incredible what rehabilitation can do. Many patients can discard a brace, for example, after five or even ten years." Today, some hemophiliacs work as longshoremen and loggers...
...sale the house where she spent nearly three decades with Playwright Charles MacArthur. This week the dishes, furniture and memorabilia-more than 1,000 items-will be sold at auction on the front lawn, with proceeds going into a scholarship fund named for Daughter Mary, who died of polio in 1949. Having a last look around before flying off to winter in Mexico, the actress evinced few regrets. "The financial and spiritual strain has been too hard. There is so much-from so many years...