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Many of the largest classes in the College met yesterday, after Rosovsky and others spent most of Thursday calling Faculty members to ensure they would be able to attend...
Lavery and Luders are handsome young dancers. At times they look tense, as if trying too hard to make difficult new roles look easy. The women are, frankly, the largest in the company. As usual, Balanchine has managed to enhance their special attributes. In a few caressing gestures of Lavery's hand. Von Aroldingen shows an intimate, womanly quality; in a brief sequence when she looks like a participant in a walking race, Neary makes cheerful fun of herself...
...such a devout Hindu that he not only refuses to eat meat but he refuses to be vaccinated against smallpox because cattle were used to make the vaccine. Now Desai has decided to ban the export of rhesus monkeys as of April 1. India is the world's largest exporter of the animals (20,000 last year), and the U.S. is the largest importer (more than 12,000). If Desai's ban takes effect on schedule -and one aide says the Prime Minister's "mind is closed"-it will jeopardize the process by which polio vaccine...
...largest single consumer of rhesus monkeys in the U.S., as foreseen in the 1955 treaty, is the polio-vaccine testing program. Lederle Laboratories of Pearl River, N.Y., now the sole U.S. manufacturer of the vaccine, grows the Sabin attenuated virus strains in cultures of African green monkey kidney cells. Samples of each batch of vaccine (currently totaling about 25 million doses a year) are then injected into the brain cavities or spinal columns of 45 rhesus monkeys. After three weeks of clinical observation, the animals are "sacrificed"-killed humanely by an overdose of sodium pentothal-so that their nervous tissues...
...because its body mechanisms closely resemble those of humans and because it has been studied so extensively that new results can be measured very precisely. In the short term, therefore, many U.S. scientists are nervous about the prospective ban, and the Charles River Breeding Laboratories in Wilmington, Mass., the largest such institution in the U.S., is being inundated with telephone inquiries about future supplies. (At the moment, there are about 1,300 of the imports in the U.S.) In the long run, despite the expense of breeding rhesuses in captivity, the Indian ban can be overcome...