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...WALTER L. KNECHT Yellow Springs, Ohio...
Once upon a time the U.S. Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee sat down to begin hearings on the confirmation of Lewis L. Strauss, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and one of the ablest and thorniest figures in U.S. public life, as Secretary of Commerce. At that time an informal poll of the committee members showed that Strauss would win committee approval by a vote of 14-3. Last week, two months and 1,739 rancorous pages of testimony later, Strauss finally did win the committee's approval-by a cliffhanging vote of 9-8 (the squeaking...
...cause brain inflammation, which now (since Salk vaccine) kills more victims than does polio and handicaps about as many by damaging the brain. The progress reports: ¶ Harvard's Dr. John F. Enders (Nobel prizeman because his test-tube foundations made the Salk vaccine possible) and Dr. Samuel L. Katz have worked along orthodox lines, weakened the measles virus by growing it 70 times in tissue cultures of human kidney and amnion, and finally chick embryo cells. Despite this "attenuation," it has retained its power to stimulate the system to produce antibodies against itself-just as does an attack...
Died. Stephen L (for nothing) Richards, 79, first counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one of the powerful triumvirate that rules the church, shrewd lawyer and businessman who concentrated on the far-flung Mormon missionary program; of a heart attack; in Salt Lake City...
...L Pct. G.B. Cleveland 24 15 .615 -- Chicago 24 16 .600 1/2 Baltimore 24 18 .571 11/2 Kansas City 18 20 .474 51/2 Washington 20 23 .465 6 Boston 17 22 .436 7 Detroit 17 22 .436 7 New York 15 23 .395 81/2