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...Gold shows some tendency to concentrate in cancerous lymph nodes, but the metal stays in the body indefinitely after it has lost its radioactivity. Silver concentrates faster, and the body gets rid of most of it. However, radioactive silver is hard to make in a pile and therefore is hard to get. So in Nashville, Biochemist Paul F. Hahn is trying to fool the body by silver-plating his radio-gold...
When the boron had soaked through the woman's system, including the brain tumor that was killing her, the doctors placed her head near Brookhaven's high-flux pile. While the doctors watched from a platform, the pile operator threw the controls and a stream of neutrons from the pile shot through her skull, aimed at the tumor site. For 17 minutes the boron in the tumor was turned, atom by atom, into a source of instantaneous alpha radiation...
They also said that 58 patients with brain cancer have been injected with an isotope of boron, which, they asserted, may "lead to useful treatment by direct rays from the atomic pile at Brookhaven, N.Y." This procedure has been described as "a miniature atomic explosion...
...three sons (21, 19, 14), she does all her own cooking, still finds time for outside activities, such as being president of the Rosary Society of St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church of St. Albans. She gets up in the morning at 6:15, fixes breakfast, then tackles her pile of mail (800 letters a week). Four days a week she reads letters, dictates answers to two high-school girl helpers and sends pamphlets to advice seekers...
Plinay Jewell of Eliot was the big scorer, earning more than half of the Elephants' points. He took first in the 50-yard freestyle and closed quickly to tie for first in the 100-yard freestyle event to pile up nine points...