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...dialogue until the final scene, when the husband understands his own sad metamorphosis and his wife's idealistic strength. Tillie Olsen's style is highly individual in a sense impressionistic. It is almost as if the sensitiveness of a child's reactions and insights were sifting through a loose filter of adult experience...
...Fallout protection is an extra amenity claimed for Wheeler's otherwise conventional 43-ft. motor yacht. It has a pump-and-filter system that allows fallout-safe operation for eight to twelve hours; the makers provide enough fuel capacity (300 gal.) to enable a surviving skipper to head for uncontaminated waters. Price: about...
Through the Filter. Enders worked at first on tuberculosis and bacterial pneumonia. But in the early '30s there was growing awareness of the importance of smaller infectious particles, so small that, with negligible exceptions, they were invisible to medical researchers under even the strongest microscopes...
Most of the bacteria studied by Pasteur and his early followers were big enough to be trapped in fine porcelain filters, devised by Pasteur's assistant Charles Chamberland, and to be seen under the 19th century light microscope. It was a temperamental Dutch botanist, Martinus Beijerinck (1851-1931), who found that whatever caused mosaic disease in tobacco plants could slip through the minute pores of these filters. In 1897 he concluded that this infectious, filter-passing fluid was a "filterable virus." The word virus had been loosely used for centuries to denote any "poison" that caused infectious disease...
...consumer sentiment finally leaning toward the buy side, especially in autos and appliances, but he does not expect the buying trend to show up noticeably until November and December. Bolstering Katona's optimism were indications from builders of a September pickup in new home sales that will eventually filter down to appliance makers. Another bit of encouragement for the fall retail season: the strike at Ford Motor Co. seemed near an end as the company agreed on a three-year contract last week with the United Auto Workers, and at week's end pressure was mounting for dissident...