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...Supporters of both parties were eager to be sold, and so were the independents. In many big cities, where voter registration was completed or still continuing, the totals foretold a bigger turnout in November than ever before-and therein lay a Republican sore point. For although figures were significantly higher for both Republicans and Democrats, the Democratic Party strength was increasing in many critical areas faster than the Republican. Item: in nominally Republican Philadelphia registration ended with 100,240 new Democratic voters, only 57,065 new Republicans; the city's G.O.P. registration lead was down from...
...months, he went from store to store until he had called on every retail merchant in the district; he averaged six speeches a night, endorsing price and rent controls, arguing for lower tariffs and higher immigration, championing organized labor and attacking the National Association of Manufacturers. When he discovered that the district had high literacy, he switched from handing out cigars to handing out pencils stamped with his name...
...rays to deliver a presumably damaging 10 r. to a man's gonads. Even so, notes the Journal of the American Dental Association, the currently used 5-r. doses are unnecessary. In the same issue, Radiologist Lewis E. Etter of Pittsburgh tells dentists how (by using higher voltages, better filters, faster films, shorter exposures) they can cut down the total radiation used in each exposure to a piddling .1 r. The National Bureau of Standards has developed another way to reduce X-ray exposures: a panoramic machine (see cut) which photographs the entire mouth with a single, sharply focused...
Therapeutic. Although the amounts of radiation required in medical treatment, e.g., for cancer, average much higher than those in diagnosis, they are generally safer. Treatment usually is given by a radiologist who uses elaborate shielding to protect parts of the body not intended to be irradiated. In some cases, radiologists take a calculated risk of damaging some healthy tissues for the sake of attacking the cancer and prolonging life...
...marshes of the Mississippi delta country, drilling from rigs floated atop steel barges or straddled on a forest of pilings. The risks of searching for sulphur are high (the company lost $1.5 million drilling into one barren offshore salt dome last year alone), the costs of mining it even higher. But willingness to take the risks built Freeport into the second biggest producer (first: Texas Gulf Sulphur Co.) of the mineral that is used in the production of everything from fertilizers to detergents, steel and rubber. Last week Freeport tackled its biggest risk yet: President Langbourne M. Williams, 53, announced...