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...Icebox Will Do. In preserving the blood's white cells (twice as big as the red, 7,000 to a cu. mm.), researchers could report no comparable success. But they had at least some good news: they have concentrated the substance (a protein) that stimulates white cells to devour invading bacteria and thus makes them the body's shock troops against infection. If an injection could whet the white cells' appetite, it would be a powerful reinforcement of the body's natural defenses...
Superspeed Film. Eastman Kodak Co. put on sale a new roll film in 35-mm., 620 and 120 sizes that is twice as fast as Kodak's Super-XX. The new TriX film will take indoor snapshots with ordinary light, night sports events without flash. Price: same as Kodak's Super...
...persons examined, and he calculated that X rays taken every six months of men over 45 would show 50 cases per 100,000. There are 22 million men in that age group in the U.S., and each year they would need at least 44 million minifilms (35-mm.), plus 1,000,000 larger films for checking suspected cases...
...moving close to the speed of light, the undulator, from their point of view, is only one-seventh as long as it is from the point of view of Dr. Motz. The waves caused by the magnetized teeth shrink in proportion. Other shrinking actions bring them down to .16 mm...
NORTH AMERICAN Aviation's newest Sabre jet, the F-86K, armed with four 20-mm. cannon (instead of the standard rockets) and equipped with a new all-weather fire-control system, will go to NATO air forces...