Word: depressant
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...father, a man who was clearly ahead of his time, went bankrupt in 1922," writes Bendiner, explaining why there was little about the Depression to depress him. After all, he adds, it was also a time when FORTUNE was saying that the Depression had "solved the eternal domestic-service problem in America." Maids could be hired for as low as $4 a month plus room and board. "Suburban citizens still solid enough to have gardens that needed care could have them tended for $1 a week." Not that Bendiner's family had any of those luxuries. Their only...
...ANTILYMPHOCYTE TREATMENT. One way to depress white-cell and antibody activity is to introduce antibody against the lymphocytes themselves. So thymus glands, spleens and lymph nodes are removed from human cadavers, and the extract is injected into horses. The horses' rejection mechanism goes to work and makes particles active against the human lymphocytes. The horses are later bled, antilymphocyte serum is extracted, and may be further refined to a globulin fraction. At the University of Colorado, a team headed by Dr. Thomas Starzl has performed 19 successful transplants since last June; given antilymphocyte globulin, the patients have got along...
...incisive detail that can paint an instant picture--a "jade-rimmed pince-nez," an "ivory ping-pong table" -- but sometimes he starts cataloguing trivia. With sparser details and stronger endings, his stories will be gems. Conn Nugent's revelation that Harvard football victories depress the economy is off-beat and has an angle--the sort of amusing fact-twisting that the Yale Record is more inclined to do, but very welcome in the Lampoon...
...informer suggested that Sarasota County Sheriff Ross Boyer look into "something odd" about Carmela's death. According to Boyer, the tipster was Marge Farber. Suspicion focused on succinylcholine chloride, a muscle relaxant commonly used by anesthesiologists. The drug is injected into patients to depress breathing temporarily during some operations, but an overdose can kill within ten minutes-and traces of the compound disappear from the body almost immediately...
...people back home?" It is a question that Lyndon Johnson would dearly like to answer, and clearly should. For if the war seems necessary and honorable to most U.S. fighting men in Viet Nam-and, by his say-so, to their Commander in Chief-it continues increasingly to baffle, depress or infuriate millions of voters in America...