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Died. Dr. Tom Douglas Spies, 57, nutrition expert whose boyhood horror of pellagra (once widespread, often fatal vitamin-deficiency disease in the South) led him to use nicotinic acid to cure the disease in the South and the North (where alcoholism was a principal contributing factor) ; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...current favorite is Coricidin (Schering Corp.), combining APC with a small enough dose of the antihistamine Chlor-Trimeton to be sold without prescription. If the customer does not know what he wants, many druggists recommend this. Competitive runners-up: Dristan (Whitehall) and Super-Anahist (Anahist Research Laboratories). Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) has become popular, though its value is largely unproved...
...eight Discoverer satellites into polar orbits. The Agena is designed to ignite when high in the vacuum of space. This is not easy because few fuels will ignite in a vacuum. Bell gets around the problem by using hypergolic fuels (unsymmetrical dime-thylhydrazine and inhibited red fuming nitric acid) that ignite spontaneously as soon as they come in contact. After the first stage burns out, a small charge of solid propellant flares up and generates gas that runs a turbine and pumps the liquid fuels into the Agena's combustion chamber. They start burning immediately, giving...
...cold for science, workers at Britain's famed Common Cold Research Unit (TIME, Sept. 21, 1953) reported that they have isolated what appears to be three strains of common cold virus. They will not grow under the conditions favored by most viruses, but need a cooler and more acid medium (like the lining of human nasal passages). The strains are so choosy that some nourish only in cells from embryonic human kidneys-in which others will not grow at all. Upshot: there are probably so many different strains of cold viruses that a single vaccine is as far away...
...virus was that of Stewart-Eddy polyoma, named for N.I.H.'s Drs. Sarah Stewart and Bernice Eddy (TIME, July 27). Team members stripped the protein overcoat from the virus particles to get the nuclear content. This proved to be a form of deoxyribonucleic acid, which has an enormously complex structure with a molecular weight of 2,000,000 or more...