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Planned to house dogs used in research, the one-story structure is the temporary command post from which Dr. Heller leads the major part of the U.S. fight against one of mankind's oldest and deadliest enemies-cancer. T19 is headquarters of the National Cancer Institute, and John R. Heller, 54, is the National Cancer Institute's director...
Dreadful Poison. Plutonium must be handled as if it were thousands of times more toxic than the deadliest poison, which it is: it is strongly radioactive, and if a microscopic amount of it gets into the human body it causes dreadful damage. Exposed to air, it oxidizes quickly, and the oxide floats off as a deadly, impalpable dust. If it is machined in air, the shavings burst spontaneously into flame, giving off clouds of deadly smoke...
...complete three-shot protection for 50 million Americans under 40 who still have had no vaccine or only an odd shot. This will mean wiping out pockets of epidemic potential, now found mainly in low-living-standard areas, such as the Detroit slums that bred 1958's deadliest outbreak. Simultaneously, Dr. Salk recommended a fourth or booster shot for those who have already had three. (Though some nervous-Nellie parents have had their children jabbed seven or eight times, this apparently does no good: the fourth shot gives antibody levels as high as they can be pushed...
Nobody Heard. The carnage caused by the torpedoes was bad enough, but what happened next resulted in the deadliest single-ship disaster the U.S. Navy ever suffered at sea. Why and how it happened is the theme of Richard Newcomb's book, which sheds sharp new light on a tragedy aggravated by bumbling...
...deadliest denizen of Cartoonist Al (Li'l Abner) Capp's disorderly world is the Lower Slobbovian Bald Iggle, the gentle-looking bird that fixes a maddening, sad-eyed stare upon anybody who tells a lie. If Lower Slobbovia really existed and the U.S. needed an ambassador there, Washington would do well to send Manhattan Dress Merchant Maxwell Henry Gluck. Of all the foreign diplomats in Lower Slobbovia, Max Gluck alone would be so honest that he would run into no trouble with Bald Iggles...