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The gamma-1 compound normally serves an entirely beneficial function. In this case, however, it also attaches itself to the cancer cells. But is unable to pierce their outer membranes.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bloch Finds Defense Mechanism In Human Body May Encourage Growth of Harmful Cancer Cells | 5/17/1966 | See Source »

The Third District Court of Appeals reversed the decision. Wrote Judge Fred R. Pierce: "Our reversal is upon the grounds that plaintiff's widely advertised name and well-known senior use of the name had given it a 'secondary' meaning and that junior use of even a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Torts: What's in a Name | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

To test his theory, Pierce and Arthur Whitson, a co-worker at California's Stanford Research Institute, spent''four weekends in four different bathrooms. After setting up a field mill-a device that measures the electric field in the atmosphere-they turned showers on and off, flushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Research: Why a Shower Is Bracing | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

Cool Reception. According to Pierce and Whitson, the atmosphere of a bathroom is electrified whenever water is running. The charge varies from a high negative field during a shower to a barely noticeable charge when a toilet is flushed. Water that falls into an empty tub produces a higher charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Research: Why a Shower Is Bracing | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

"Amusing, but not entirely appropriate," huffed one scientist in the A.G.U. audience, which greeted the bathroom research with polite but restrained applause. Pierce was unruffled by the cool reception. "If I had said that these were experiments on the breakup of water and had set it up as a laboratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Research: Why a Shower Is Bracing | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

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