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...Gamma globulin has edged back into favor as a protective against polio. After restudy of cases that occurred in 1952 and tests of viruses from victims. Pittsburgh's Dr. William McD. Hammon reported that G.G.'s record had been smirched by sloppy test procedures and by confusing other diseases with polio. Hammon and colleagues now consider G.G. slightly more effective than they had first thought-but still no substitute for a vaccine...
...done it? Not, apparently, by being a grind. "It may sound terrible," she said, "but I averaged about five dates a week." An accomplished pianist, she joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, played plenty of tennis, even joined the chorus line at the university's spring carnival show. Somewhere along the way, she also found time to get engaged to Fred Sorenson, 29, the news director of the local TV station, WCIA...
...does the foundation want more money? The root of the trouble is that it is stuck with a $19 million bill for gamma globulin this year, in addition to a $7,500,000 test of the Salk vaccine, plus all its regular outlays for care of patients (estimated to top $33.5 million), education and research. Though doctors still disagree on the value of gamma globulin, the foundation had to buy up most of the year's output and control its distribution, or haphazard use would have ruined the Salk vaccine test. Meanwhile, the foundation was reduced to asking hospitals...
...peculiar track was made by enormously powerful gamma rays that created electron-positron pairs as they streaked away from the site of the collision...
...ordinary matter. It would behave itself normally as long as it stayed at home. But if particles from an antiproton star should wander into a region, like the earth's atmosphere, where the other kind of matter abounds, they would not live to tell the tale except in gamma rays...