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...years ago. In Washington last week, Navy scientists reported that a high-flying Aerobee rocket had detected strong X-ray sources associated with distant galaxies. And NASA officials are preparing for the launching later this month of an orbiting observatory equipped with telescopes for the continuous detection of ultraviolet, gamma and X-ray radiation that cannot be seen through the earth's atmosphere...
...blood will be sent to South Vietnam in the form of gamma globulin which is injected into all servicemen to protect against an epidemic of infectious hepatitis. Whole blood will not be sent to South Vietnam...
...Laborit who ferreted out the unsuspected nerve-center-depressant properties of chlorpromazine, the wonder drug of 1954, which opened up the new field of psychopharmacology (the use of drugs to influence the emotions). It was Laborit who found the formula for the sleep inducer gamma-OH, which has no unpleasant aftereffects...
...this day at least four fraternities - Sigma Chi, Phi Gamma Delta, Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Delta Theta - either have switched to constitutional euphemisms or have reached unwritten "gentlemen's agreements" that require members to be "socially acceptable" to all other members. A member pledged in California, for example, must not be likely to offend a member in Alabama. A fifth, Sigma Nu, still retains a "whites only" clause, but has permitted chapters, if pressured by college officials, to request special dispensation to admit Negroes. Sigma Chi requires national approval of every member by a screening committee supplied with...
...hell night" initiation last April for the Omega Gamma Delta fraternity of Oceanside High School on Long Island. Not surprisingly, the bomb had a predictable effect on Ninth-Grader Michael Kalogris, then 14. He collapsed with what doctors at first feared was a ruptured spleen...