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Getting its R.O.T.C. students ready for active duty after graduation, the University of Wyoming has not neglected their wives and fiancées. Last week, 22 young women turned out to hear a guest specialist, Mrs. Dorothy Irwin, wife of retired Brigadier General C. L. Irwin, outline the contours of Army etiquette. Stressing the importance of the service wife's role ("Wives are even mentioned in efficiency reports about their husbands"), bouncy, silver-haired Dorothy Irwin quickly got down to cases...
...with Reserpine. One of the biggest mental institutions in the U.S. is Illinois' Manteno State Hospital, 45 miles south of Chicago. Rated for 5,000 patients, it holds 8,200. Its physical plant, dating from the 1930s, is reasonably modern. In its overcrowded red brick buildings, Psychiatrist Dean C. Tasher had seen hundreds of patients drift downhill to the "very disturbed" wards where they persisted in lying naked on the floor in their own filth, and some eventually to the hydrotherapy ward, where they had to be kept in tubs or wet packs for most...
Radiation Senility. In a speech before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee, Dr. John C. Bugher, chief of the Atomic Energy Commission's Biological and Medical Division, made a statement that chilled the Senators. "A possible delayed effect of radiation exposure," he said, ". . . is a statistical shortening of life expectancy." Such "radiation senility" has been demonstrated with animals. "This phenomenon does not result from any specific cause of death, but apparently from a general acceleration of the aging process. Whether this factor can be recognized in a human population is as yet unknown...
Post-Bomb Leukemia. Another delayed effect of radiation has already been recognized in humans. Dr. William C. Moloney of Tufts Medical School and Dr. Robert D. Lange report in Blood, The Journal of Hematology on leukemia (blood cancer) among Japanese atom-bomb survivors. Most people near the centers of explosion at Hiroshima and Nagasaki died of heat or blast. Some survived these effects, but got heavy doses of gamma rays and neutrons. In Hiroshima, 750 people who had been within 1,000 meters (3,300 ft.) recovered from their radiation sickness and remained apparently well for years. Then an unusual...
...Strike. In Cambridge, Mass., Navyman Richard C. Burke, 21, got a quick annulment after testifying in probate court that Wife Mariquita Campastrano, 25, had concealed nine previous marriages when she married...