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Tireless work by such researchers as Dr. William McD. Hammon of gamma globulin fame (TIME, Nov. 3, 1952) and Yale's Dr. John R. Paul shows that polio is a worldwide, natural infection of man and at least as old as civilization. And the first and greatest paradox is that the more widespread the infection, the less disease there...
...Have Had It." The second great paradox of polio follows naturally from the first: as a disabling disease, it is a product of civilized man's passion for sanitation, sewerage and other public-health measures. While other infectious diseases have decreased with higher living standards, paralytic polio has been increasing. Man himself is the only known natural reservoir of the virus. How it reaches him and enters his system is not known for certain, but the current consensus is: person to person, rather than by pests (though flies can carry the virus), and through the mouth...
...place where lasting music will be built is where the two great roads of popularity and of lasting beauty interest. In the pursuit of music, as in the acquirement of every form of artistic expression, we encounter the aesthetic paradox, that what we like first we seldom like best--that we prefer our second choice to our first...
Cautiously, Premier Joseph Laniel and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault tried to extract a policy out of the paradox of a war France could find no way to win yet dared not lose. The Geneva Conference was not far off. The National Assembly demanded to know how the government proposed to stand when the diplomats at Geneva discussed Indo-China...
Expansion of Japanese exports must come in the production of steel, machinery, and other heavy industry. Here, Western markets are closed because of their more economical production of these goods. Japan's paradox is that, in the Far East, where heavy industry is so plainly needed, the markets still remain shut to Japan. One reason for this abstinence is an ingrained hatred of Japan left over from wartime abuses. But far more important are the crippled economics of the Eastern countries. Bridled by antiquated methods of production, the mainland countries, far from exporting food, can barely manage to feed their...