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...TIME erred a thousandfold, should have said 3,000 cc...
Then there was the question of injecting the vaccine in 1 cc. (¼-teaspoonful) doses into the arm muscle-the method now in use. Dr. Salk had tried using only one-tenth of this amount in a tricky intradermal injection-between the layers of the skin. This, he found, was not enough...
...Danish authorities think they have got around this by using ⅓ cc. under the skin.) Some experts oppose injections of any kind into the muscle during the polio season because they fear that the needle may provoke a flare-up by a latent polio infection that otherwise would have done no harm. Dr. Salk did not feel that this objection was decisive, but would leave the verdict to local health officers...
...Tourist Trophy motorcycle races wound up without a single fatality. But this time, while the riders managed to survive, the devilish mountain course proved more than a match for the British bikes that have dominated the races since World War II. The Junior T.T. (for machines up to 350 cc.) went to an Italian Moto Guzzi; the Senior T.T. (for 500-cc. bikes) was won easily by British Motorcycle Champion Geoff Duke, mounted on a four-cylinder Italian Gilera. Duke's best time over a 37¼ mile lap: 99.97 m.p.h...
From $15.50 to $8.75. Following the ban, the company recalled the unused 256,000 cc. of its Salk vaccine, announced that it would take a loss estimated at $1,250,000. Under the deluge of bad publicity, Cutter stock slumped from $15.50 to $8.75 a share...