Word: houston
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...Which? Dr. Hammon was reporting on results of the $1,000,000 tests (paid for by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) in Provo, Utah, Sioux City, Iowa, and Houston (TIME, July 14). In all, 54,772 children aged one to eleven got inoculations while polio epidemics were raging. Half the children received shots of gamma globulin, the small fraction of human blood which contains protective antibodies. The other half received useless (but harmless) gelatin. Nobody, not even the doctors, knew at the time which child got which shot...
Science & Medicine 84. As an epidemic gripped Houston, Texas, doctors injected thousands of children with gamma globulin to see if it will prevent: 1. Sleeping sickness...
...Good Shepherd. In Houston, campaigning for traffic safety, Episcopal Bishop Clinton S. Quin passed out cards urging local drivers to be more careful at the wheel because "You may hit an Episcopalian...
...chaplain . . . said that men, in these uncertain times, are seeking security . . . He said there is no better security than belief in the story he had just finished telling ... I left the service feeling that, in a time of great uncertainty, here was a man who was certain." Weeks later, Houston's leading Presbyterian minister, the Rev. Charles King, devoted his own sermon to Soldier Reed's text...
Last week, back in Houston, ex-Soldier Reed found himself a town celebrity. He was asked to appear on radio and TV programs, lecture at women's clubs, while he took a rest. But after a few days he dropped in to the Post to ask City Editor Johnston for something to do. Johnston set him to covering the draft boards again. Grinned 23-year-old Reporter Reed: "I don't seem to be getting anywhere...