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...Short View. In Appleton, Wis., police ordered the Junior Chamber of Commerce to take down its accident Scoreboard which featured red and green lights, on the ground that it was a traffic hazard...
...last week's Nature magazine, R. Hanbury Brown and C. Hazard of Britain's University of Manchester announced that they had detected radio stars in M. 31, the great spiral nebula in Andromeda, 750,000 light-years from the earth. They did the job with the largest radio telescope (a trellis-like "dish" of wires) at Jodrell Bank Experimental Station south of Manchester. Normally this telescope points upward, receiving radio waves from a narrow "beam" directly overhead. If the mast at the center is swung 14° to one side, the telescope points, in effect, toward the Andromeda...
Calling penicillin "an allergic hazard," Captain Robert L. Gilman reported that reactions in pre-sensitized patients are marked by "chills, fever, prostration, arthritic symptoms and shock." Recovery takes a long time, and there may be serious relapses. The ultimate absurdity, according to Oilman: using penicillin to treat vague complaints when the patient is actually suffering from a reaction to penicillin itself...
Butler suggested that some Dartmouth players may be burned in effigy. But he said that the University police will not permit torch-carrying because of the fire hazard to buildings...
EDITORIAL, OCTOBER 5, 1949: "All the trouble comes from an old, old statute on the Cambridge books which prohibits parking after 2 a.m. . . . the Police Department defends the statute on the grounds that cars on the street at night are a hazard to the Fire Department . . . but the Fire Department has pointed out that it can get its hook and ladders through any streets where parkers obey the daytime parking signs . . . There is only one group of people who stand to gain from the parking law, and they are the proprietors of the local garages and parking lots...