Viral role in diseases raises demand for nationwide labs
New view links viruses to many illnesses from cold to heart disease. Scientists urge nationwide virology labs, noting slow viruses and viroids may underlie multiple CNS diseases such as multiple sclerosis, scrapie, and kuru, with calls for expanded research and collaboration.
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New York
Sol Spiegelman
Columbia University
Robert A. Good
University of Minnesota
America
George E. Burch
Tulane University
Burch
F. Kinsley Sanders
Sloan-Kettering Institute For Cancer Research
Sanders
National
John Griffith
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham
N.C
Diener
New Guinea
Spiegelman
Columbia Virus
Organized Labor Launches Big Anti-Wallace Campaign
In Florida and beyond organized labor campaigns against George C. Wallace in the Florida Democratic primary. AFL-CIO leaders call Wallace a bigot and antilabor, forming a COPE task force to distribute literature and plan a film. They warn his vote could aid Nixon and oppose busing for integration.
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Miami Beach
George C. Wallace
Florida
Alabama
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Wallace
al Barkan
Big Labor Federation
Barkan
Committee On
Big Labor
Meany
Nixon
COPE
James Kennedy
North
South
Persimmon fruit varieties and historical use
Persimmon fruit grows on small hardwood trees of the ebony family. The Oriental or Japanese persimmon is native to China and grown in the southern U S and California. The American Virginia Date Plum ranges from the Mid Atlantic to the Gulf, often too soft to market, with Indians making bread from pulp.
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China
U.S
United States
Virginia
Middle Atlantic States
Gulf of Mexico
U. S
California
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
Beltsville, Md
Gustav Stern
Agriculture Department
Quizon
Persimmons
Nti
Chou En-lai
Peking
Zenith
Creed
Saratoga
Titan
Dalton
Lawton
Tury
Gore
Orig
Kashmir
S.W. Oklahoma
Big Ox