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...Vaccination Mechanism. The most practical results so far of virological research are vaccines, and vaccines depend on the basic concept of viral structure as a nucleic-acid core with a protein overcoat. The coat is a foreign substance to the body it invades, and in the higher animals, including man, the system fights back by making antibodies that gang up on a virus particle, surround it and neutralize it. Unhappily, it takes days or weeks for the body to mobilize its antibody police, so the first viral invasion is likely to succeed and make the invaded victim sick...
...that in some unpredictable cases, a molecule of viral nucleic acid, without its protein overcoat, so closely resembles a gene that it can slip into the cell's chromosomal lineup, displacing a normal gene, and make the cell reproduce abnormally. Most of the resulting abnormal cells would probably die, but a few might retain the power to run wild and perpetuate themselves as cancer...
DUSK was gathering over the Kremlin. "As I was walking back to the Congress Palace after the dinner recess the first day," cabled TIME'S veteran Moscow Correspondent Edmund Stevens, "I recognized a familiar figure in a long overcoat walking alone. He waved to me. I walked over and shook hands...
Crossing from Austria into Yugoslavia differs little from crossing any other Western European boundary. True, there is a double border, one for passport inspection, one for customs; and the customs official, a ruddy man with an immense fur overcoat and Russian style hat, is even more humorless than his American counterpart. This particular one showed no response whatsoever to one tourist's pathetic attempts to cope with a Serbo-Croatian customs form, though his stoniness did finally soften when another tourist requested extra stamps for her passport. For a moment, he relaxed his suspicious glare, smiled, and stamped her passport...
...arms race: "Now the United States is arming and we are, too. We are spending money and energy in preparations to destroy people. We are making nuclear tests. But what the hell do we want with tests? You cannot put a bomb in soup or make an overcoat out of it. Nevertheless, we are compelled to test...