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...suggested that Cambridge would follow the projected move by dismantling the kiosk entirely. The city would perhaps also remove the concrete island, widening the Boylston-Mass Ave. junction and easing traffic problems further...
Malfunction Junction. Cape Canaveral...
...carotid body, Dr. Nakayama's research indicated, is not only a junction point for many nerves (see diagram), but, by its responses to minute changes in the composition of the blood, it does much to regulate breathing. Most notably, an increase in the blood's carbon dioxide content sets off a carotid body reaction that can bring on a choking attack of asthma by causing fast, shallow breathing in lungs unable to handle the added load. To suppress these excessive reactions, Dr. Nakayama wondered, why not cut out one or both carotid bodies? After tests on animals...
Other stops on the tour ending April 7 in New London, Conn, are Sanders Junction, Penn.: Montclair, N.J.; Hestings-on-Hudson, N.Y.; and New Canaan, Conn. The performance in Sanders Junction will be for the benefit of the Sarah Louis Home for Crippled Children, and the Hastings Teachers' Association will benefit from the show's performance at Hastings-on-Hudson...
...tractor-trailers, loaded with cheese and butter, pulled out of a terminal in Birmingham, Ala., to start on the ten-hour, 365-mile run to New Orleans. At 2:45 they were barreling along Alabama Highway 5 when a cream-colored car passed them, raced on to a junction, turned and sped back. From the car a shotgun was fired point-blank at the cab of the lead truck, critically wounding Driver Charles Warren...