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...Office of Price Stabilization was in the midst of grinding out a new price regulation last week when it got word of President Eisenhower's intention to bring an orderly end to all economic controls (except for rent and strategic materials controls). With an anguished clank, OPS and other control agencies shifted quickly into reverse, began to grind out new plans for orderly decontrols...
...weeds stand years of painstaking work by Virus Researcher Jonas Salk in University of Pittsburgh laboratories. Dr. Salk and his co-workers take samples of all three varieties (the Lansing, Prunhilde and Leon strains) of polio virus and grow them in test tubes with pieces of monkey testicle. They grind up this stuff and treat it with formaldehyde. There is doubt as to whether the chemical "kills" the virus, but no doubt that it knocks it cold. Dr. Salk has taken some of the resulting vaccine and injected it into monkeys. Within three weeks, samples of their blood contained polio...
...wiry little wisp attributes his recent rise to "work, and more work," a preseason training grind of 35 miles a week, a stay-in-condition routine of 25 miles. Unlike most milers, Dwyer never plans a race in advance: "I let the others do the figuring; I do my thinking while I'm running." Without being cocky about it, Dwyer knows that this is his year. "Now," he says, tapping his chest, "I've got it here physically, and here," tapping his head, "psychologically...
...from a drive shaft, Johnny has been driving autos, preferably fast ones. Last week "Jean Feetch," as rabid French sports-car enthusiasts call him, was invited by Rootes, Ltd., makers of Britain's Sunbeam-Talbot, to drive in the Monte Carlo Rally, a 72-hour, 2,000-mile grind, as testing on men as it is on machines...
...time for the raucous cries of a quarterback, the groans of heavily-laden gentlemen smashing each other on hot May afternoons, and the dull grind and drill that is spring practice. Athletes at least receive rewards in intercollegiate competition in season; if spring practice's adherents were logical, they might suggest that Harvard play football against Yale in spring as well as fall...