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...people have spent more than $60,000,000 righting polio. What have they got for their money? Up to now, nothing that looks remotely like a preventive or cure. But scientists now have the ugly measurements of the disease, and they think they may be getting somewhere-in the laboratory...
...first moving picture to portray it not as cloak-&-Geiger-counter melodrama but as deadly serious historical fact. MARCH OF TIME, with the cooperation of 20-odd scientists, who appear in the picture, has retraced and re-enacted the main publishable stages in its cause and towards its possible cure. The motion in charts and animation makes newly graphic the basic principles of fission; shots heretofore unreleased to the screen suggest some of the effects, including, as one emblem or symbol more grim than any in Pompeii, the shadow of a human body, fire-stenciled into the pavement of Hiroshima...
...millicurie*- became the first byproduct of atom-bomb-making to be released for medical research. Last week's buyer (at $367 plus handling charges and deposit on the bottle): the Barnard Skin and Cancer Hospital of St. Louis, which will use it only in research. It will not cure cancer...
...experiments will be performed on rabbits. Reason: present object of experiments is not to cure but to cause cancer and hundreds of rabbits can share the C14 required to experiment on a single human being...
...neurotic or hypochondriac, argue that a stroke is impossible without such classic signs as muscular weakenings or loss of feeling in parts of the skin. But Alvarez insists that the brain can sustain thousands of tiny strokes with no symptoms beyond changes in personality. Nothing can be done to cure such patients, he admits, but doctors can emphasize that strokes may be far apart...