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Dates: during 1950-1959
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White Tires. A white rubber paint with which car owners can make their own "white wall" tires in 20 minutes was put on the market by Chicago's Lowenthal Manufacturing Co.The manufacturer says the white walls will last as long as the tires. The do-it-yourself kit contains one bottle of cleaner to prepare the tire surface and enough liquid rubber to paint five tires. Cost...
...suspense" story, one of that rapidly growing species that doesn't care to be seen on the same shelf with a common whodunit but can't quite qualify as serious fiction. What lifts English Novelist Howard Clewes a few cuts above his fellow practitioners is a kit of writer's tools that many a more important novelist would be glad to borrow from. His writing is clean as a whistle, economical without being starved for words. He can get suspense without straining for it, because it is less the product of plot mechanics than of atmosphere...
Atoms for Diagnosis. In the long run, atomic medicine may prove to be more important as a tool kit to help doctors in diagnosis than as a shelf of cures. Already, radio-sodium is extremely valuable as a treatment gauge in certain types of kidney disease of which children are most often the victims. It is all very well to keep these little patients, with their puffy eyes, on a diet from which salt is rigorously excluded. But doctors need to be sure that they are not going too far: if the system is really salt-starved (and hence, sodium...
Throughout the U.S. (as in Canada and Britain and Western Europe), eager researchers are grasping for every usable tool they can find in the atomic kit. So far, of over a thousand known isotopes (many of them stable) of 98 elements, at least 60 radioactive forms have been tried in medicine and research. In the U.S., the Atomic Energy Commission is backing more than 300 research projects by private institutions in medicine and biochemistry, and there are many more, under security wraps, in AEC's own labs. And the nation's hospitals and universities themselves are sponsoring hundreds...
...compelling, tightly-kit Suite for two pianos by Edward Rickard, 1G, ended the program. While thoroughly at home in the musical language of America today, as examplified by Barber and Copland, Mr. Rickard avoids being merely imitative. His musical ideas are original and he expresses them in a carefully thought-out, effective manner. The Suite contains a wealth of ingenious rhythmic and structural patterns, yet their variety never endangers the unity of the work as a whole. The deeply-felt final adagio--rising to a loftier, more intense level of expression than any of the other movements--seemed...