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...picture starts out as a naughty, nutty boudoir farce. The lover it celebrates (Jean-Pierre Cassel) is a gay young gigolo whose rich mistress (Micheline Presle) keeps him comfortable but also keeps him busy. Even so, the lover has enough libido left for a chic chick (Jean Seberg), and for several reels the tandem romance rackets merrily along. Neither mistress knows he has the other; he on the other hand is blithely unaware that both attend the same hen parties...
...cancer) in chickens. At Harvard and then at the Rockefeller Foundation, South Africa-born Max Theiler performed the delicate and dangerous feat of getting yellow-fever virus to grow in the brains of mice. With infinite patience, Theiler in 1936 grew 176 generations of virus in tissue cultures of chick embryo cells,* weakening the virus with each "pass" and seeking a generation that would be too feeble to induce the disease, yet strong enough in a vaccine to spur the system to create antibodies. The vaccine that he achieved won Max Theiler a Nobel Prize...
...Enders pondered while he puttered with cowpox virus in tissue cultures of chick embryo cells. Through an ordinary binocular microscope, he could see that the cells were damaged and began to fall apart as the virus multiplied. Others had seen this phenomenon; to the thoughtful Dr. Enders its significance eventually became clear and astonishingly simple: the nature and amount of cell damage were indexes to the nature and amount of viral activity. "It seems incredibly obvious now," he says...
Smallpox. Improved vaccines are being made, some by growing cowpox virus in live calves (the historic method), some in chick embryo, freeze-drying it so that it will ship better and keep longer without refrigeration...
...agent that caused PAP. So far, researchers have not been able to prove for sure that "Eaton Agent" is a virus. It goes through fine filters and thus seems to fall in the sub-bacterial size-range of the viruses. Like some other viruses, it can be grown in chick embryos and hamsters. Using new fluorescent techniques, researchers have traced the antibodies that are formed to fight the Eaton Agent. But they have never been able positively to single out the presumed virus and photograph it with an electron microscope...