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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep production going, 4,000 monkeys a month are flown in from India and the Philippines.) Then the virus in each deadly brew is killed with formaldehyde. Strangely, although the virus particles now lose their power to multiply or to cause disease, they keep their power to stimulate a higher animal to produce antibodies. Because in the Salk formula the virus types are mixed, the Salk vaccine is really three vaccines in one, effective against all known polio strains...
...question about which many Biblical theologians of today are extremely skeptical ..." ¶ In the German town of Darmstadt-Eberstadt (pop. 15,000), Protestant and Roman Catholic church bells rang out in new ecumenical harmony. The Catholic bells' low C,D,F,G and the Evangelical bells' higher G,B,C,D formed (more or less) the tune of the Te Deum composed in the 4th century and one of the most famous hymns in history. ¶ Appointed dean of the newly gingered-up Harvard Divinity School: the Rev. Douglas Horton, 63, Brooklyn-born, Princeton-educated ecumenical leader...
...world of carefully controlled enjoyment. Pain and trouble are avoided whenever possible, as if there were something sinful about them. He keeps looking out for the moments of immersion in beauty which are "it," the purpose of his life. "I wonder," he wrote recently, "whether art has a higher function than to make us feel, appreciate and enjoy natural objects for their art value? So, as I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge or a vigor of spring as well...
...March the Federal Reserve Board's industrial production index climbed to 137 (1947-49 = 100), eleven points above a year ago and only one point shy of the alltime peak set in March 1953. Residential construction was one-third higher than in 1954's first three months, and business spending for new plants and equipment in the second quarter is going to increase so much that outlays for the year as a whole will be well ahead of last year...
...below the ten-year average, largely because of acreage cutbacks and a severe drought in the Texas-Nebraska wheat belt. Agriculture Secretary Benson is afraid that farmers will vote down controls this year, thus kick over high price supports in favor of higher acreage...