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...United Nations in Manhattan. His subjects were six atomic scientists (five men and a woman) who had been exposed to normally fatal radiation in a reactor accident at Vinca, Yugoslavia's equivalent of Oak Ridge. The patients were flown to Paris, lodged in the Hopital Curie. The mildest case, estimated to have absorbed 400 r., got better with conventional treatment-blood transfusions, special diet, rigorous protection against infection. The other five, nauseated and vomiting, soon showed a dangerous drop in blood-cell counts, and Radiologist Jammet decided to try heroic measures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rays & Bone Marrow | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

What Jayne Mansfield has, the U.S. has seen so much of so often that she stirs only the mildest of ripples. But in Rio, where movie fans rarely see Hollywood oddities in the flesh, a hard-working girl can still stir a riot, especially at carnival time. Invited down for Mardi Gras by the Copacabana Palace Hotel, Jayne was instantly dubbed "0 Busto" and missed not an opportunity to justify the dubbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: O Busto at Work | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

When he sat in the uproar of the National Assembly in Paris, Pouvanaa Oopa, sole representative of Tahiti and its sister Pacific islands of French Polynesia, was the mildest of men. But back home in peaceful Tahiti, Pouvanaa Oopa became a terror in paradise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tahiti's Troubles | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

Lackey was one of the mildest words Cairo had for Bourguiba. Nasser's radios warned the Tunisian President that he faces "the same destiny as Nuri as-Said," the assassinated Premier of Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARAB LEAGUE: Defying Nasser | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...Starting at the first real dips, C.E.D. individually plotted such prime indicators as industrial production, gross national product, employment, inventory changes, plant expansion, month by month or quarter by quarter to show the relationship of each to the others. Conclusion: the current recession is the shortest and probably the mildest of the three. It is also the recession that proved it a fallacy to consider tax cuts and heavy Government public works pump-priming, either together or separately, as the speediest and surest cure for any business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE THREE RECESSIONS: Score Card Shows 1958's Was Shortest | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

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