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...most Americans, the letters GG are recognizable only as the links on stylish men's loafers or the imprint on pricey women's handbags...
...strapless model on the next page: "It gives a perfect tan sans strap marks." Coty Award Winner Monika Tilley, a pioneer of the one-piece suit, has focused on thighs, figuring that bosoms have had their day in the sun, and it is high time owners and watchers of GG legs get a chance. Tilley's jade mini-maillot adorns Model Cheryl Tiegs in the surf at right...
Virologists, pediatricians and public health officials have worked out a compromise. They give the live vaccine, and at the same time they give an injection of human gamma globulin, the blood fraction that contains antibodies against measles as well as against other diseases. The "GG" has staved off fever in all but about 20% of children already double-vaccinated and has eliminated the rash in all but 3%. Most important, the GG does not keep the children from developing enough of their own antibodies to give them lasting protection against natural measles...
...Brave, the Arm. After stating that their children had never had measles, parents pushed, pulled or carried the kids into the cafeteria-clinics. For the brave ones, two rolled-up sleeves sufficed for a shot of vaccine in one arm and GG in the other. Kids who went into tantrums had to be held while their pants were rolled down and they got a needle in each buttock. The one child in five who gave a blood sample will be bled again in about a month, for comparison of before-and-after antibody levels. All parents got a form...
Under a 1947 agreement, long denounced as unfair by Filipinos, the U.S. had acquired gg-year leases on 23 Philippine bases, and the U.S. Navy was running the town of Olongapo (pop. 60,000) almost like a unit of its own Pacific Fleet (TIME, July 20). Under the new terms negotiated by Bohlen and Filipino Foreign Secretary Felixberto Serrano, the U.S. has now agreed...