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Chasing a Bug. For years, researchers have been trying to isolate and assess the role of PAP viruses. In 1944, Harvard Virologist Monroe Eaton found in the sputum of some pneumonia patients an agent that caused PAP. So far, researchers have not been able to prove for sure that "Eaton Agent" is a virus. It goes through fine filters and thus seems to fall in the sub-bacterial size-range of the viruses. Like some other viruses, it can be grown in chick embryos and hamsters. Using new fluorescent techniques, researchers have traced the antibodies that are formed to fight...
Fortnight ago, Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, took the occasion of Kennedy's impending speaking tour of the West to assess the Administration. Canham found it wanting: "The Democratic critics a year ago called the Eisenhower forces a 'do-nothing administration.' They presented themselves as men of action-apostles of courage . . . Today, both in the United States and in the allied capitals, but even more in the hostile centers of world communism, the impression prevails that the Kennedy administration shrinks from the test when the test comes." Canham's conclusion: "The Kennedy...
...obvious difference between Sky Shield II and the real thing was that no bombs exploded, no antiaircraft missiles were launched, no guns were fired. But there was another difference; it would take days and weeks of study to assess the effectiveness of NORAD's response to the make-believe attack. If that attack had been by someone else and in earnest, the results would be all too apparent all too soon...
...attempt to assess the summer in the final two discussion groups was at once rewarding and disappointing: disappointing when some of the Congolese asked us again why we had come to their country--was it to build a youth center?--and rewarding when we reflected that after our graceless prodding, our six weeks of living together had enabled them to tell us what they thought of Crossroads Africa...
...older men applying had risen substantially in recent months. Air Force Sgt. Ernie Emord noted that there had been a noticeable increase in the number of older men enlisting in the Air Force, and in the number of college graduates applying for officer programs. It was difficult, however, to assess the influence of the President's speech, because of a 600 per cent jump in the number of positions open in the officer program, and the fact that inquiries about the regular Air Force normally increase during the summer, after high school graduations...