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...Breaking records before it even hits peak season in late fall, infectious hepatitis is mysteriously appearing and disappearing in city and hamlet, hopscotching the map in a manner that leaves epidemiologists at a loss for cogent explanation. Equally frustrated are the physicians who are trying to treat it, using gamma globulin to help prevent it. and ACTH and cortisone-like drugs to treat the symptoms in some severe cases...
...participate or observe. But on dry Broom Lake in the isolated northeast corner of the range, a 1,500-ft. tower is under construction for far more advanced testing. On its top will soon perch a small, unshielded nuclear reactor designed to give powerful bursts of neutrons and gamma rays for short periods. There will be no explosion, but scientists will be able to observe the effect of the radiation on test objects (and perhaps animals) arranged around the tower. Thus, they should be able to estimate the killing effect of the still-unachieved neutron bomb and figure how soon...
Before the start of World War II, Bethe was one of the few men in the U.S., or anywhere else, who understood the infinite implications of nuclear physics. His interests ranged from the creation of matter out of gamma rays to an explanation of the thermonuclear reactions from which the sun and the stars get their energy. When war started, he was soon in the thick of the scientific battle. He served first at M.I.T.'s Radiation Laboratory, then went to Los Alamos to head the theoretical physics division of the atom bomb project. Had Hitler's empire...
...Wash Your Hands." Infectious hepatitis may be forestalled if gamma globulin is given while the disease is incubating, but gamma globulin shots are painful, costly and scarce. The PHS's protective advice: "Wash your hands." Antibiotics have no effect, and once the disease takes root, doctors can do nothing but put their patients to bed, forbid alcohol, treat their symptoms and feed them a nutritious, vitamin-rich diet. In severe cases, ACTH and cortisonelike drugs may help to prevent coma and clear up jaundice...
...week's end Hal Hayes sat isolated and incommunicado among his green rugs and bomb shelters, all of which seemed insufficient protection for the jam he was in. No one knew for sure what his gamma-eyed creditors would do to his empire. But everyone in Hollywood agreed that it would be a shame indeed if anything put an end to those lovely parties in that all-out house...