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...University Health Services, because the Alumni Records Office "had space needed by the library." David C. Weber, senior assistant in the library, would not divulge what Widener will do with the rooms vacated by the records office, but he hinted that "there is always a need for more micro-reproduction facilities and studies for professors...
...cancer increase in recent years. Says Dr. Wilhelm Hueper of U.S. National Cancer Institute: "Some people got into a fright when they first heard about bacteria or viruses, and for a time would not even shake hands for fear of infection. People came to accept the presence of dangerous micro-organisms in our environments while scientists did everything possible to lessen the danger. Now people must learn to live with carcinogens while scientists tackle the problem...
...year micro-record is a reminder that Americans were offered and bought some odd artifacts-crocodile sofas, mourning handkerchiefs, dog-powered butter churns, solid gold toothpicks with ear-spoon attached, mustache cups ("appropriate gift for the man of elegance") and bosom boards (wooden stiffeners used to shape men's shirts for ironing). In 1905, Sears was offering the "Princess Bust Developer," a bell-shaped cup attached firmly to a handle, and was telling women that IF NATURE HAS NOT FAVORED YOU, the developer would...
...Campus (Ohio State), Minor came to ICC by a remarkably circuitous route. He worked summer vacations as an entertainer in New York's borscht circuit, later spent a year touring 40 states with a Major Bowes unit as part of a three-man comedy act called The Micro Maniacs. Drafted into the Army in 1942, Minor rose to command a machine-gun company in the Normandy invasion (where he received the Purple Heart), went back to civilian life in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and returned to Ohio State, where he graduated...
...Hospital. It takes, he found, only about one seven-hundred-millionth of a healthy young man's weight in LSD to produce a model psychosis lasting five to ten hours. In experiments recorded by a movie camera (see cut}, a psychology student volunteer, age 23, took 100 micro-grams and wrote afterward: "I had very little by way of visual hallucination, but what I consider the important thing was that ... I was dissociated, plagued, pounded, weighted-all these are inadequate to describe the horrible state I was in, all of them put together. Perhaps the central thing...