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Tireless work by such researchers as Dr. William McD. Hammon of gamma globulin fame (TIME, Nov. 3, 1952) and Yale's Dr. John R. Paul shows that polio is a worldwide, natural infection of man and at least as old as civilization. And the first and greatest paradox is that the more widespread the infection, the less disease there...
Another delegation pounced upon Philip and presented him with a cricket bat and a pair of crutches. Later the Duke and Queen Elizabeth II, both inoculated as a precaution with some of the first Australian-produced gamma globulin, went by train to northern Victoria, where a polio outbreak has cropped...
...bulk production of the plastic polyethylene the day the Nazis marched into Poland. In the metals division, new plants made fuel tanks for planes, periscope tubes for submarines, 60 different types of ammunition. Other divisions boosted production, and I.C.I.'s researchers added their bit with such things as Gamma Benzene Hexachloride, a highly effective insecticide considered better than DDT, and Paludrine, a quinine substitute considered more effective than atabrine...
...standoff on the second point meant little, because if mass inoculations had been highly effective, the fact would have been apparent. After studying the report, one authority had a crisp suggestion: forget about gamma globulin for polio and turn it over to the states for use against measles and hepatitis...
...instance, what happened to the material blown from the great crater. Item: Did radioactive chunks of it sail through the stratosphere? He did not fully describe the heat radiation or the shock waves that must have traveled through the air and sea. He said nothing about the powerful gamma rays that the bomb must have released. But more revelations may be coming. "I hope," Cole said, "that within a few weeks the American people will be able to witness in reproduction [movie film] the full fury of a hydrogen explosion...