Word: abo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inevitably, because blood is a whole pharmacopoeia in itself, the hematologists had a field day. Dr. Leon N. Sussman of Manhattan's Beth Israel Hospital pointed out that besides the familiar ABO and Rh factors noted on every serviceman's dog tag and blood donor's identity card, there are no fewer than 15 other "public"* factors widely distributed in human blood. By computing all the possible combinations of these, Dr. Sussman arrived at the startling figure of 57.6 million different kinds of people distinguishable by telltale proteins in their blood. Because there undoubtedly are still other...
...virtual indestructibility of blood-group markers is shown daily by forensic pathologists who solve a crime by analyzing a single spot of months-old blood. Less commonly known, said Dr. Sussman, is that 80% of people have similar substances, from which ABO grouping can be determined, in their sputum, saliva, nasal secretions, urine and seminal fluid. To prove it in his laboratory, Dr. Sussman got an assistant to lick a postage stamp and stick it on a piece of paper. This was left on the lab table, exposed to air, sun and dust. At the end of a month...
...growing oil-and-beef city of Artesia, N. Mex., where the temperature sometimes hits 100° in October, citizens have long become used to windowless schools. It helps air conditioning, and the children approve. But last week Artesia* announced an even more singular design. Except for the flagpole, Abo Elementary school will be entirely underground-apparently the first such nuclear-age school in the U.S. Says Architect Frank Standhardt: "I consider my profession derelict on civil defense. We've had ten years of grace and done nothing about...
Everything about Abo School will have a dual function. Designed for 540 children, it will readily shelter 2,000 persons. Flush with the ground, the 18-in. concrete roof will be a basketball court and a fallout filter. The two wells used for air conditioners can supply emergency drinking water. The lunch room will be stocked with a 14-day food supply, and cupboards throughout the 18-classroom building will contain 970 cots. Abo will also have a two-way radio, underground phone lines, radiation-measuring instruments, provisions for fire fighting, garbage disposal and a morgue...