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Miss Albright is a junior and a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. She had planned to stay at the KKG house here, but since there is none, Rogers said, "the members of the Ad Hoc Committee are vying for the privilege of handling this particular detail...
...children what amounted to a slight case of measles, with a mild rash and some fever. A later vaccine made with killed virus took two or three injections to build immunity of uncertain length. Doctors' preferences varied between giving a shot of the live vaccine with a shot of gamma globulin to reduce side effects, or giving one or more shots of killed vaccine, then one of the live. In the confusion, only 7,000,000 U.S. children have been vaccinated, which leaves 20 million susceptible youngsters...
Pound's work was based on the change of frequency in gamma rays--or "red shift"--as they travel upward or downward in a 75-foot column...
...everything from bridges to nuclear submarines. Then Technical Operations, Inc. of Burlington, Mass, helped Eastern solve the problem of getting radiographic equipment into the hollow rotor shaft of jet engines by using a 100-curie capsule of iridium 192 that is as small as a pencil eraser but emits gamma radiation powerful enough to pierce the engine's metal innards...
...tiny radiation source is cranked 6 ft. into the shaft. A strip of industrial X-ray film wound around the engine is bombarded by the gamma rays streaming out from the isotope. The result is a detailed X-ray photograph of the hundreds of tough-to-get-at rotor blades that suck air into the engine, compress it and feed it to the combustion chambers...