Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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U.C.L.A. decided to teach everything at once, or nearly so. As a result, its medical freshmen spend their first year learning only about normal man-his psychological and biological aspects in terms of structure, function, growth, behavior, the effects of environment. At every step anatomy, physiology and biochemistry are correlated. The next 18 months deal with disease. The last terms include full-time bedside and clinic experience...
Last week, as the scientists had predicted, radioactive dust began to settle out of the stratosphere over Japan. Coming into the troposphere, it mingled with the clouds and fell to earth as radioactive rain. Even before rain fell, the normal air radioactivity of 50 counts per minute rose to 400 counts at Tokyo. Rain at Matsue on the Sea of Japan registered as high as 89,000 counts. Japan's weather bureau announced, to soothe the jittery public, that more radioactive rain was to be expected, but that it would probably not be harmful to humans...
Advised of the presidential ruling by a tired, taut and testy Jim Hagerty, newsmen realized that Ike still had a Levin tube down his throat, a needle in his arm for feeding, a temperature and pulse only "essentially" normal. By Hagerty's own description the President still "did not feel like doing a jig." Had he actually, they pressed, made the decision himself? Or had he assented meekly to a judgment already made? Said Hagerty: "The President certainly made the decision. He sure did." On Capitol Hill the question was echoed by Congressmen considering what to do about legislation...
...First. The main vaccine problem is supply, which is still far behind demand, although 69 million cc. have been released. Of the expanding monthly output (9,500,000 cc. in May), 60% now goes to public agencies for free clinics and distribution to local doctors. The rest goes through normal sales channels to druggists and M.D.s. Scheele urged doctors to give high-priority coverage to children under 15 and to pregnant women...
...will emerge with the best method. A recent editorial in the Journal of British Nuclear Engineering crowed about prospective British ascendancy over the U.S. in atomic-power output, but admitted: "At least one and probably more [of the U.S.-designed reactors] will probably have asserted itself as a normal piece of industrial equipment by about 1960. [while] in Britain there is at present no sign that a comparable situation will obtain at that time...