Baring her left arm, the Seattle housewife stepped around the fire engine and up to the doctor and nurse waiting at the rear of the firehouse. Deftly the doctor inoculated her with 1 cc. of Salk polio vaccine, and seconds later she was on her way home. "Why," she exclaimed to a fireman at the door, "that line moves faster than the free-coffee line in a supermarket."
Last week, in Seattle and across the nation, long lines of men and women quickly got their polio shots as local medical societies waged an all-out campaign...
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