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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through the Heavens. The Sperry Rand suit remains unsettled, but Norris and colleagues are confidently pushing ahead. On the strength of the 1604's immediate success, Control Data raised the money to develop two desk-size computers and one medium-size one. Also under development is Control Data's most ambitious effort yet-the huge, advanced-design 6600 computer which will sell for between $8 million and $12 million...
Triggering mechanisms are still more obscure. Stanford University's Radiologist Henry Kaplan has shown that if he gives a dose of X rays to seemingly virus-free mice, they develop cancers containing virus particles. The late Dr. Francisco Duran-Reynals argued that chemicals and viruses combine to cause cancer. Now many laboratories are confirming his basic thesis: mice painted with a low dose of a known carcinogen (cancer-causing chemical) get no tumors, and neither do those exposed only to viruses; but if mice get both the virus and minute amounts of the chemical, many of them soon develop...
Interferon. From the chemists' laboratories there has come no drug that will selectively attack viruses while sparing the cells in which they seek sanctuary. But nature suggests that there is a way. If it takes days or weeks for protective antibodies to develop, why does not the pullulating virus overwhelm all the victim's susceptible cells in the meantime? London's Dr. Alick Isaacs last year found a partial answer. Virus-infected cells produce a substance that Isaacs calls interferon, which spreads to neighboring, uninfected cells. With their interferon guard up, these cells are unusually resistant...
...disease, so need is for a general-purpose vaccine. Lederle Laboratories' civilian vaccine combats four strains, including Asian. Manufacturers say Public Health Service delayed too long in warning of probable outbreaks this fall and winter, so output has fallen behind need. Demand is high; black markets might develop. Made from viruses grown in incubating eggs and killed with formaldehyde, flu vaccine gives only moderate, far-from-permanent immunity. No major improvement in prospect. Russia, despite setbacks, is trying to perfect an influenza vaccine that can be inhaled or swallowed...
...retirement himself in four years. A barrel-chested outgoing life of the party, Goodman started at G.M. 36 years ago on the assembly line, worked his way to the top through the Fisher Body and Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac assembly divisions. His biggest contribution: cutting the time it takes to develop a new model from more than three years to less than...