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...Uruguay, haunted by memories of 1955-56 when 1,800 adult polio victims died, went all out on oral vaccination last October, got 300,000 people immunized before politicians decided to make an issue of "experimental" vaccine. Their protests had no effect. Last week Uruguayans were still queueing up for it, and no ill effects had been reported...
...Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Haiti, Cuba and Puerto Rico had run or were planning oral vaccination campaigns...
...keeping with recommendations last spring by the Committee on Educational Policy, the Department will institute oral general examinations in place of written exams for Honors candidates, starting with the Class of '61. The Class of '60 will have a choice between oral and written examinations...
Huxley was strongly supported by his fellow scientist, Homi J. Bhabha, who heads India's atomic energy projects. Bhabha was not enthusiastic about oral contraceptives, which, he said, cost too much and must be "used systematically and precisely," but "if some substance could be developed that could be mixed in one's daily diet and would have the effect of reducing the chance of conception by about 30%, the problem would be immediately solved." Indian delegates favored voluntary sterilization of all Indian couples with more than three children; the congress itself unanimously advocated sterilization as an effective...
...even shorter oral--reputedly the shortest on record--is told of a graduate student up for his Ph.D. in American Civilization. His first problem was to trace the sexual imagery in The Scarlet Letter...