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From South to North. The man behind most of this monkey business (the biggest in history) is Jonas Edward Salk, 39, an intense, single-minded medical researcher who spends his days and a large part of his nights in the University of Pittsburgh's Virus Research Laboratory. Behind Salk. in turn, are Si million of the 3 billion dimes that the U.S. public has given to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis...
...being made according to his specifications on a nonprofit basis by five pharmaceutical houses-Parke, Davis & Co. in Detroit. Pitman-Moore and Eli Lilly & Co. in Indianapolis, Wyeth Inc. in Philadelphia, the Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, Calif. For all of them, the indispensable raw material is the monkey, and the procedure is much the same. For example...
Medical Research Laboratories use 60 to 65 monkeys in a single morning. Each is deeply anesthetized with ether. In a couple of minutes a skilled surgeon removes the kidneys. Then the monkey is killed with an overdose of ether. Patient technicians cut the kidneys into tiny pieces with nail scissors. The bits of tissue go into big glass bottles with a pink solution known by its formula designation: No. 199. Hundreds of bottles are rocked gently for six days in an incubator, and kidney cells grow in the fluid as though they were still in the living animal...
...From monkey-style haircuts and tight pants to knives and revolvers, from the daily bottle of brandy to riots and adventures in the streets, from annoying pedestrians to armed assault on people, and eventually from the 'samba' and 'boogie-woogie' to jail and the gallows−that is the way Brzoza wanted to develop as a bandit, and then travel to West Germany. Who knows if he wouldn't have returned to Poland as a murderer and an agent of an enemy-espionage gang...
...said that under they combined programs now being considered, American students going abroad in their junior year would leave on deposit in this country a fixed amount of monkey that would cover a German student's expenses here, outside of travel and tuition. The Germans would arrange for a similar deposit in Germany to cover the American student's expenses. The total cost of the program to each group of students would be no more than normal expenses of such trips...