Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...polio virus for the three broad types that can independently cause disease- Mahoney for Type I, MEF-1 for Type II. and Saukett for Type III. About 80% of paralytic polio used to be caused by Type I strains; of the balance, Type III caused slightly more than half, leaving Type II as the least dangerous. But it is against Type II disease that the vaccine has proved most effective-it has almost disappeared in four years. The explanation is in the antibody levels that Dr. Salk has studied in the children he inoculated: highest against Type II, lower against...
Grand Tradition. Pianists Demus, 30, and Badura-Skoda, 31, met at Vienna's Academy of Music, started playing together purely for relaxation. Although they have made half a dozen recordings together (for Westminster), they still regard their four-hand playing as "amateur in the best sense," prefer to concentrate on their individual careers as soloists. Badura-Skoda specializes in Mozart ("I have the quicker fingers"), while Demus concentrates more on Schumann and the French repertory...
...large measure, Baylor's tremendous skill stems from his tremendous physique. He is 6 ft. 5 in. tall, weighs 230 lbs. He is strong enough to win the hip-cracking duels under the basket, yet nimble enough to outjump men half a foot taller, dodge around men half a foot shorter...
...point with the Minneapolis Lakers. He had never given the showboating, all-Negro Globetrotters a serious thought ("I'm not a clown"). With a shaky franchise, the last-place Lakers needed Baylor this year to attract crowds, ended up paying him an estimated $20,000, one of the half-a-dozen highest salaries in the league. The money was well invested. The Lakers are still losing, but they are drawing twice as many fans as last year...
...sizable dividend boost. In a final desperate gesture, Portal called in 14 leading old-line British banks, who claimed to control 2,000,000 of Aluminium's 9,000,000 shares, to help in buying more shares. The banks said they would pay $11.48 a share for one-half of each stockholder's holdings if he would keep the rest three months, i.e., until the fight was over. This only made stockholders madder, since it showed that the original price to Alcoa had been much...