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Short or Long. To buttress his arguments-that a live virus is better and confers longer immunity-Researcher Sabin went to the Eskimos. In one of their isolated communities immunity against polio was shown to have endured for 40 years after the last previous encounter with the virus. Use of the short-term killed vaccine, argues Sabin, might leave U.S. parents with the necessity of having their children reinoculated every year...
...history, is the worry over whether a society can produce enough goods to take care of its people. The lingering worry is whether it will have enough people to consume the goods. The population figures seem to insure that the U.S. will; the rate of growth is the strongest buttress of confidence in the continuation of unprecedented prosperity (see BUSINESS). Every recent prediction of a U.S. depression has proved wrong; the business indexes have turned up again, pushed by the population index...
When the Senate met for its third day of debate on Ralph Flanders' motion to censure* McCarthy, Joe's enemies were well aware that a move was afoot to send the motion to committee. Arkansas' Democratic J. William Fulbright had tried to buttress Flanders' generalized motion with a specific six-count amendment, which included the old charge that Joe had shaken down Lustron Corp. to collect a $10,000 fee for writing a housing booklet. Republican Leader William Knowland moved to refer the censure motion to a select committee of three Republicans and three Democrats...
...Alaska, George W. Argus Jr. wrote on April 14 to his parents, who run a Brooklyn bakery: he was going to climb Mt. McKinley (20,269 ft.), North America's mightiest peak, soaring upward three miles from its base. Moreover, he was going to try the formidable South Buttress. "It's as safe as walking down the street in New York," he wrote...
...great wall of ice. At about 2:30 p.m. on May 15, the day they were due back, they reached the peak, left souvenirs and posed for pictures-"Like at Coney Island," Argus said. The next day they started down along the conventional north route instead of the South Buttress; it was, they knew, far easier and safer-but not really safe...