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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tactical-size, low-fallout thermonuclear weapons. In addition, he serves on the AEC's General Advisory Committee and the Air Force's Scientific Advisory Board, carries on his own strenuous public education campaign in media as far afield from pure science as the This Week Sunday supplement. Main topics: the survival value of underground bomb shelters, the need for continued nuclear-weapons tests, and, above all, the urgency of keeping ahead of Russia in science...
Election & Ejection. As he faced the Assembly to ask for investiture last week, the emotional impact of the occasion imparted a tremor to Gaillard's normally resonant voice. Then he steadied and briskly outlined his program. Main points: special powers for pursuing the war in Algeria (including a new appeal to the rebels for a ceasefire, a new discussion of the loi cadre), a 100 billion-franc slash in government expenditures, new taxes and price controls...
...nation's eight years of independence. True to form, Sukarno sent his goon squads out into the street to whip up indignation over the Dutch refusal to hand over Dutch New Guinea. (Says Sukarno: "I don't get it. The Dutch have given us the main building, but they still cling to the garage.") Organized bands of hooligans smeared blood-and-thunder signs on cars and the walls of Dutch-owned shops and Australian homes from one end of Djakarta to the other...
...Main objection among the surgeons to this type of operation is that the Ivalon does not stay spongy, but shrinks 20% and becomes as hard as a baseball. Dr. Edgerton admitted this defect (he is careful to warn his patients of it in advance), but felt that the operation was still justified because "it is important to do something for the patient emotionally." About 30 of the 500 surgeons at the San Francisco meeting said they perform this operation; some have abandoned it because they got poor results, had to remove the polyvinyl in a second operation...
...Main difficulty is that it takes the pineal glands of 15 steers to make one day's dose for one patient. With only small quantities available so far, Dr. Altschule estimates that it will take at least two years to get a firm verdict on the extract's value. Meanwhile, he is testing a preparation from the same substance to be taken by mouth, and chemists are hoping to synthesize it. Exactly why any substance from the pineal gland should have this effect is just as mysterious as oldtime speculation about the clairvoyant third...