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...call it mere tongue-in-cheekiness, a jolly but self-indulgent romp. And as, amid shenanigans, there comes a sudden stab to the heart or a surface shot that plumbs the depths, it is perhaps easy to make too much of it, to find its anarchic flings an assay of an ill-governed world, its rancid taste an assault on respectability. Less than a philosopher and more than a buffoon, Behan is chiefly an insatiable human being. He is no one's cup of tea who recoils from finding it sloshed into a saucer, no one's humorist...
Research physicians from a dozen U.S. medical centers reporting on their studies with more than 500 patients expressed hope that kanamycin will also prove effective against many urinary-tract infections (common, stubborn and dangerous), and against tuberculosis-though precise assay of its usefulness against TB will take years. Also offered was evidence that kanamycin (released for general prescription last month, trade-named Kantrex by Bristol Laboratories) may prolong life and ease pain in cirrhosis of the liver...
...intercontinental ballistics missile program, with the Air Force's Major General Bernard Schriever (April 1, 1957); and on the fabulous new industry supporting missile production, in the cover on California's Ramo Wooldridge Corp. (April 29, 1957). After Sputnik. TIME correspondents went their rounds again to assay the present state of U.S. science, as the scientists themselves see it. For the views of Physicist Edward Teller and his colleagues, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Knowledge Is Power...
...Another nominee: Lyndon Johnson, who already is fending off a clamor for a change in the Senate rules to forestall filibustering (TIME, Dec. 3). Parrying Ziffren's invitation, Johnson tentatively agreed to serve, postponed final decision until he caucused with House Speaker and Fellow Texan Sam Rayburn to assay Ziffren's strength...
While most state and all federal health officials decided to wait until November before trying to assay the effectiveness of polio vaccination in 1956, Oregon's board of health got a jump on them last week by reporting its program a huge success. Among 350,000 Oregonians who have received at least one shot of Salk vaccine, there have been only 30 cases of polio in 1955 and 1956 to date, for a rate of less than 9 per 100,000. Among 1,340,000 unvaccinated there have been 480 cases, for a rate four times as high...