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...Stanley is a leading U.S. authority on viruses (which cause such diseases as influenza and infantile paralysis). Twelve years ago he discovered the flabbergasting fact that a certain virus (of tobacco mosaic disease) is "both living and dead": it can reproduce like a living organism but can also form crystals like a lifeless chemical substance...
Viruses, said Stanley, are too small to be seen with ordinary microscopes; but electron microscopes show them plainly. The tobacco mosaic virus, for instance, is a slender rod. The rods affect one another at a distance as if they were tiny bar-magnets. This "long-range force," still unexplained, may prove the key to many deep life mysteries...
Before the yellow stucco house at No. 114 Rua 7 de Setembro in the dirty little town of Rio Casca in Minas Gerais State, some 8,000 people, a mosaic of the diseases of Brazil, had been softly singing the haunting hymn I Shall Be with My Mother. The faded grey shutters of the house swung open. A hush came over the malformed, the sick, the hopeful and the curious. One man fell on his knees. Behind him a weeping father supported a son on whose face was an idiot's grin...
...answered grimly, and stealing only a slight glance at her white-socked legs as she danced to a seat in the front, returned to the mosaic he was working on his notebook cover...
Blended smoothly into the bright multicolored mosaic of the United Nations last week were the blue and yellow of Sweden, the blue, red and white of Iceland, and the black, red and green stripes of Afghanistan, all newly admitted to the U.N. A. Hosayn Aziz of Afghanistan was first to pen his signature to the instrument of adherence, followed by Thor Thors, Iceland's Minister to the U.S., and Oesten Unden, Foreign Minister of Sweden. Elected to the Security Council as temporary members were Belgium, Colombia and Syria; they will replace The Netherlands, Mexico and Egypt...