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...fighting went on, one man among the Christians worked for peace. Lawyer Raymond Edde, 45, the son of a former Lebanese President, headed what he called a Third Force movement (known to U.S. newsmen, in its ineffective days, as the "Third Farce"). One of Lebanon's most able and respected politicians, Edde ran unsuccessfully for the presidency against General Chehab. When trouble started again, he proposed a "save the nation" Cabinet of four leaders of the embattled factions. To offset Karami's Nasserism, he proposed as deputy premier a fellow Maronite Roman Catholic who wants no part...
Capsule of Canada. In a sense, B.C. is Canada in giant capsule form, a pioneer land where the frontiers are just starting to roll back. In the first 100 years British Columbians managed to plow only about 33% of the available farmland, utilize barely a fraction of their other known natural resources. Yet prosperity is a condition of life, to be greeted with the same calm pleasure as the monster 25-lb. brook trout (in the East a five-pounder is trophy size) hauled from the rivers...
There is no longer any doubt that Rous's experiments were superbly executed and that his conclusions were sound. The Rous sarcoma and many others in a growing family of animal tumors are now known to be caused by viruses, although the definition of viruses (ultramicroscopic particles on the borderline of the animal and chemical kingdoms) may have to be revised to cover them all. It still seems that something more than the virus alone is needed to trigger the outbreak of cancerous growth, e.g., chemical or physical irritation. But the importance of the virus can no longer...
...Antibiotics, especially the "broad-spectrum" family (best-known trade names: Achromycin, Aureomycin, Terramycin) kill so many of the harmless bacteria normally found in the digestive tract that they let the more harmful bacteria run riot. A resulting inflammation of the intestines, which may be "a deadly disease"-is usually the doctor's fault...
...Oberlin people go on to graduate school, do especially well in the sciences. Equalitarian Oberlin bans automobiles, and although almost every student pedals a bicycle, the hot spots of Cleveland-and Elyria-are out of effective range. But high spirits burst out, sometimes beerily. Night climbing expeditions have been known to ascend the lumpish fagades of classroom buildings, and a recent visitor saw two happy collegians reeling along on a motorcycle, one sitting backwards and whanging a guitar...