Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dramatic progress was reported last week in efforts to cure victims of massive overdoses of radiation, and to turn this new-won skill to advantage in treating victims of acute leukemia. Nub of the problem is the fact that the human blood system responds automatically to the presence of foreign protein by developing antibodies to destroy it. This is why skin grafts and organ transplants do not "take'' permanently, except between identical twins...
...secreting abnormal cells, it might be possible to destroy the marrow deliberately with massive radiation, then replace it with healthy marrow. It has worked in mice and dogs, but the human system, far more, choosy, usually gets its antibody factory working again, and thus defeats treatment with injected "foreign" bone-marrow cells...
Died. Barthélémy Boganda, 48, Premier of the Central African Republic; in a plane crash (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Defer taxes on foreign income of U.S. firms until these earnings are distributed in the U.S. as dividends. Thus a company could reinvest more profits abroad, shift profits, taxfree, from one foreign land to another...
...Give tax credit to U.S. firms for foreign taxes that are deferred or forgiven "by foreign governments as an incentive to new productive investment." The U.S. Government should also allow companies to deduct losses that they suffer due to changes in foreign-exchange rates, such as the recent devaluation of France's franc...