Word: brewing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salk re-examined his straight-line theory of how the virus is inactivated to make vaccine. According to this, he can start with a virus brew so potent that there are 4,000,000 virus particles in every teaspoonful. But after 1½ days in formaldehyde there should only be 4,000 alive, after three days only four, and after nine days only a single active particle in a ton. If things did not work this way in practice. Dr. Salk argued, it must be because of ''fractional inactivation." This might result from the clumping of virus particles...
Wharton had the misfortune of meeting up with Jebsen in the 880, and the fleet senior defeated him by some 30 yards. Doug Brew of the Green was second. Wharton had a 1:57 for third...
...representative strain of each type and growing it-till it reaches many times its original strength -in a broth made with snips of monkey kidney. (To keep production going, 4,000 monkeys a month are flown in from India and the Philippines.) Then the virus in each deadly brew is killed with formaldehyde. Strangely, although the virus particles now lose their power to multiply or to cause disease, they keep their power to stimulate a higher animal to produce antibodies. Because in the Salk formula the virus types are mixed, the Salk vaccine is really three vaccines in one, effective...
...ground, somewhat different techniques are used. Snowdrifts on TV are actually masses of plastic flakes in solid form; snowy window sills are shaped from a coarse dairy salt, then sprayed with water to give it a smooth, rounded look. To simulate frost on a windowpane. the technicians brew a mixture of beer and Epsom salts and paint it on the glass...
...once more getting involved. President Eisenhower last week sent General J. Lawton Collins, onetime Army Chief of Staff, to South Viet Nam to see what could be done. "Lightning Joe" Collins found himself in a devil's brew of cynicism, intrigue and despair. His own role was difficult. He would not be able to give orders; he would only be able to recommend, pressure and persuade. U.S. officials on the scene would like the French to recall their mission from Hanoi and quit dealing with Ho Chi Minh, to call the Vietnamese generals off Diem...