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...also a conscientious objector. Under the Selective Service Act he had elected to work off his obligation with two years of service contributing to "the maintenance of the national health, safety or interest." Of the 4,000 Quakers, Mennonites, members of the Assemblies of God and Church of the Brethren, or other pacifist sects who choose this course each year, most go to work as attendants in mental hospitals. Only a hardy few volunteer for guinea-pig duty...
...Preceding Reeve in a similar drip test was 20-year-old Arthur Birk (Brethren) of Teegarden, Ind. As soon as the doctors had learned what they could about the effect of ACTH on his adrenals' output of electrocortin, they put him on a salt-free diet. All he had to do was to promise not to take any food or drink away from the center. He could work on its house newspaper or play golf or go into Bethesda for the movies. But it was no snap: he lost 15 pounds in a week...
Another guinea pig now in the Bethesda center is 24-year-old Robert Brantner (Brethren) of Lanark, Ill. In metabolism studies he is being kept on a rice diet in an effort to make this unsalted. monotonous regimen (usually prescribed to keep down water retention in heart cases) less wearisome and more nourishing. The trouble has been that because it lacks protein the rice-fruit menu causes the dieter to burn up his own body proteins. Metabolism experts have tried to prevent this in Brantner's case by adding two amino acids, lysine and threonine, to his diet. Also...
...Drop to Drink. Also at the center have been two women, not subject to the draft but giving a year's service at the behest of their churches: 24-year-old Ruth Hepner (Assemblies of God) of Hamilton. Mont, and 22-year-old Florence Shetler (Brethren) of Robinson, Pa. Both have spent weeks taking tiny daily doses of cortisone and giving frequent blood samples so that doctors can measure the rate of its disappearance from the bloodstream. For still more refined studies they have taken hormones tagged with radioactive atoms...
...believe that you . . . spiritual leaders of a great world organization, together with your brethren of other faiths, can lead the way. The goal should be nothing short of inviting every single person in every single country in the world who believes in the power of a Supreme Being to join in a mighty, simultaneous, intense act of faith ... a personal prayer [for] a just and lasting peace. If this mass dedication launched an unending campaign for peace, supported by prayer, I am certain wondrous results would ensue...