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...Double Boon. In Chicago, a first-grader may spend one-third of his time doing regular work, an eighth-grader three-fourths. But from kindergarten to high school, each blind child has an older "buddy" who reads to him when Braille texts are not available and serves as his guide and friend. As the years pass, the blind child becomes more and more independent-and the sighted children must be cautioned against being too protective. Says Ethel May Wright, supervisor of Chicago's program: "The blind children don't want to be different. By the time they...
...small doses was that many patients on high dosage develop symptoms like those of Parkinson's disease-paralysis agitans. To psychiatrists reporting in Philadelphia last week on their trials of proclorperazine in the back wards of state hospitals, it seemed that the Parkinson signs might be more boon than bane. Using the drug in five to ten times the doses that S.K.F. recommends for office patients, Cincinnati's Dr. Douglas Goldman saw plenty of Parkinson's but decided it was a sign that the drug was reaching the nervous system in useful amounts. At New York...
...London, Ont., Dr. Ivan Smith evaluated its advantages: it is best in cancer of the larynx, least effective in lung cancer; it gives more relief in several other forms of cancer than ordinary X rays; though it "has not revolutionized the treatment of cancer," cobalt 60 is a boon because it does less damage to healthy skin and bone, is less likely to cause radiation sickness...
...small grants of $100, still others were marked down for as much as $2,100 a year. N.M.S. also gave to the colleges the students picked (the favorites: Harvard, M.I.T., Caltech and Cornell) an amount, up to $750. equal to each college's tuition. But the more important boon to U.S. higher education lies in the young talent it has spotlighted, much of which it might never have seen. Among the 1956 winners...
...glove compartment, will be brought out by Gates Rubber Co. Tire, which will last 1,000 miles, works like inner tube. After pulling flat tire from wheel, motorist loops Gates tire around rim, inflates it with carbon dioxide gas bottle in kit. Gates thinks tire will be boon to sportscar drivers who are cramped for luggage space...