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...Elementary Precautions. Atomic medicine is far from the stage where a general practitioner down the block can look at a patient, reach into a lead-lined safe, pull out a shielded syringe and inject a radioactive isotope. Probably that stage will never be reached; even medically safe doses can be highly dangerous if carelessly handled. Wisely, the AEC has laid down strict rules to cover the distribution and use of its products. Before anyone may use an artificial radioisotope,*he must tell the AEC what he wants to use it for, how he intends to use it, what he hopes...
Along the way the author manages to inject some witty repartee, but as the play now stands, the second act needs a good deal of bolstering. After the high peak of the first act, there just is not enough action to sustain the dialogue...
Wisconsin's noisy Joe McCarthy tried to inject himself into the issue of whether Ambassador Philip Jessup should be confirmed as a delegate to the U.N. General Assembly. A Senate subcommittee split 2 to 2, and the man who cast the decisive vote was New Jersey's Republican Senator H. Alexander Smith...
...poker game in which a man draws four aces, and a scene on board a boat in which a mad doctor is about to inject Mitchum with some memory-killing serum. It's got a murdered government agent and a torch song by the heroine. It's got all these ingredients and something more...
...Michalak blacked the foreheads of two human guinea pigs with India ink to make the skin more heat-absorbent. The doctor tested their "pain threshold" with the heat from a 1,000-watt lamp. After taking their normal readings, Dr. Michalek reached for a pain-killing drug to inject. He meant to give them Demerol (safe dose: 100 milligrams). Then he would repeat the test on a third volunteer and himself, using methadon (safe dose: 10 milligrams). More pain readings were to follow, to show the effect of the drugs...