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...crash program to nip a developing polio epidemic, a U.S. Public Health Service team recommends quick inoculation of the unvaccinated with a whopping shot of Salk vaccine-10 cc., or ten times the dose now given in each of three injections. In the New England Journal of Medicine they report no ill effects from such doses in volunteers, and much quicker development of immunity...
From volunteers under total anesthesia his colleagues extracted 200 to 300 cc. of bone marrow each, through as many as 20 punctures into the breastbone and hip bones. Dr. Jammet promptly injected this fluid into the veins of the five Yugoslavs. One, who had soaked up 1,000 r., died. In the other four, the donors' marrow cells made blood for them until their own marrow began working again. They are now convalescing at home...
...Lowman. The Boston surgeons attached it to the femoral arteries and veins below the groin in her right thigh. She received a dozen marrow transfusions before and during the operation, mainly from her brothers. With her count of disease-fighting white corpuscles still at only 250 per cc., she has been kept ever since in the near-sterility of an operating room...
Traffic Problem. The terrifying traffic problem alone would have sent a big-city Sunday driver screaming for the nearest parking lot. Snarling little (747 cc.) Abarth-Fiats fought for the right of way with the chesty Class "D" (up to three liters) giants-the Ferraris, Jags and Aston-Martins. In the swirling confusion, a Ferrari rode right up the rear end of a Jaguar, and both cars spun off the track. A little Stanguellini somersaulted off course and somehow landed right side up. The only serious accident saw General Motors Executive Chester Flynn spin his Ferrari out of an Sturn...
...lasted just long enough. The Ferraris rolled easily to a finish that was strictly a family affair. Collins and his co-driver, California's Phil Hill, coasted home first. Another factory-entered Ferrari was an easy second. In third place came a perky little Porsche Spyder (1,587 cc.) that had played it cozy all through the race, lying back waiting for the front runners to falter. Index of Performance prize, for the car that came closest to the theoretical limit of its performance, .went to a tiny (748 cc.) OSCA driven by a prudent couple from West Palm...