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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Swindletron. Drs. Luis W. Alvarez and John R. Woodyard of the University of California are building a new-type atom-smasher that they call a "swindletron" because it seems to get something for nothing. At one end of a 6-ft. vacuum tube, protons (hydrogen atoms stripped of their single electrons) are shot at comparatively low speed (30,000 volts) through a thin, uncharged disk of aluminum foil. While passing through it, many of them pick up two electrons, becoming negatively charged hydrogen atoms. Next, they are attracted to a second disk of foil that is charged positively...
...biochemists at the University of California, Drs. Howard L. Bachrach and Carleton E. Schwerdt, did it the hard way.'They grew polio virus of the Type II or Lansing strain in the nerve tissues of rats, and got the concentration up to about 10%. This preparation contained particles of two sizes, some a millionth of an inch in diameter, the others less than half as big. The researchers separated the two kinds in an ultracentrifuge. then they injected the materials into different groups of rats. Only the animals that received the millionth-of-an-inch particles caught polio. That...
There are ample reasons for all the hand trouble, report Drs. Richard L. Sutton Jr. and Samuel Ayres Jr. The hands are more exposed to heat, cold, light, moisture, irritant chemicals, sensitizing chemicals and germs than any other part of the body. Moreover, an infection or poisoning of the whole body may affect the hands with especial severity. Finally, because they are the most used organs of touch, they are subject to psychosomatic disturbances. ("The hands are busy if the mind is busy . . . agitated if the mind is agitated...
...Drs. Sutton and Ayres offer no cure-all for dishpan hands, but advise their fellow dermatologists: 1) eliminate physical irritants, along with nervousness ("practice amateur psychiatry"), and cut down coffee, tea and cola drinks; 2) eliminate chemical irritants and use only the mildest ointments or dressings. Many a case of dishpan hands, the doctors warn, is made worse by overzealous treatment...
They called the result the Ministers' Clinic of Nebraska. Members paid $10 a couple per meeting, and some of them drove as much as 300 miles to get there. Drs. Young and Tompkins served without pay. And doctors and clerical couples decided that the experiment was a dramatic success...