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...Cow Without Horns. Yet, despite all the Occupation's well-meant effort to liberate Japanese women, 70% of Japanese marriages are still arranged by parents, with no say-so left to the bride herself. A recent poll of eligible bachelors reveals that most of them rate "obedience" high in a prospective wife's virtues, and greybeards still happily recall the days when every Japanese bride was given a sword on her wedding to remind her that death was preferable to desertion. In the rural districts, where from time immemorial wives have been the best beasts of burden, today...
...cow's udder is the world's most prodigious factory of antibodies, and all might be used to give human beings protection (at least temporarily) against an almost infinite variety of infectious diseases, two University of Minnesota researchers reported hopefully in Manhattan last week...
...young in the dam's colostrum. It had been thought that the human species, whether babe or grown man, was unable to pick up these protective antibodies. Not so, say Petersen and Campbell: man and a slew of barnyard beasts and birds can benefit from them. A cow that is vaccinated in the dry phase with preparations of killed bacteria, will produce colostrum* with 120 times the antibody concentration found in blood. The level falls from these peaks within a few days, but stays on a relatively high plateau for months...
...udder at one time and got no evidence of interference among different antibody assemblies. Viruses seemed to work about as well; so did some bigger parasites and even plant pollens that might cause allergic reactions. Say Researchers Petersen and Campbell: "The range of antigenic material to which the cow's udder will respond seems limitless...
David Lipscomb College, Nashville, a specialist in the prose of the cow. It is published by the notably pro-cow University of Oklahoma. And, to use an expression from Australia (where they don't have cowboys but stockmen), it is all a fair cow of a book...