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...pharmaceutical firms* are now producing Salk vaccine or hurrying to get into production. The vaccine works on a principle that has already provided protection against such traditional plagues as smallpox and yellow fever. When they attack human beings or other mammals, most viruses stimulate the invaded system to manufacture tiny protein particles "called antibodies. If the system under assault does not have enough of these antibodies, or cannot manufacture them fast enough, the victim may die, or, with polio, suffer permanent crippling. Polio virus is unusual in that there are three main types. All can cause paralysis, but one type...
...showing signs of spring fever. Most of the week's dramas ran in pairs like truant schoolboys. There were two broad farces, two plays about frustrated spinsters, two about boxers, two about lady spies, two about heartless fathers, and two about the general untrustworthiness...
...rise or fall depends on such unpredictables as economic conditions, politics, international affairs, emotions-even the weather. "Largely because of the crash of 1929, the impression has built up that the stock market is the cause of booms and busts. Actually, it is the thermometer-not the fever." The Sound-Money Man. Gently, Baruch exposed the shallow depth of the Fulbright investigation by detailing aspects of the market that deserved (but did not get) serious study, e.g., the growth of investment trusts, the entry of life insurance companies into the market, the capital-gains tax that Baruch said discourages investors...
Welfare State. In Glasgow, during the trial of Charles Frazer, 26, for indecent behavior, Prosecuting Attorney J. W. Gibbs explained the reason why so many housewives undressed for scarlet fever examinations when Frazer told them he was a health inspector: the British are "so schooled to officialdom they are hesitant to challenge credentials...
...fever spread to neighboring Rajasthan state, where anxious parents began marrying off every tot in sight. In Jodhpur district there were 10,000 marriages in which the brides and bridegrooms were between three and twelve years of age, while in Nagor district, mothers carried babies in arms seven times around the sacred fire to solemnize marital vows...