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...From the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, Dr. Frederick Traub reported that high-energy radiation from experimental atom smashers can beat the life out of tough bacteria and viruses. Using this technique, doctors may be able to prevent such diseases as hepatitis from being spread by virus in transfusion plasma...
Greeks, Britons, Americans and Israelis landed food and water, drugs and plasma; they set up hospitals and field kitchens; they bulldozed great boulders from the roads, steering gingerly past fissures down which a few islanders had perished; they dropped food and water from helicopters in the hills; they evacuated the wounded and buried the dead. More food, drugs, clothing, even prefabricated houses were also on the way. From Germany, the U.S. airlifted three tons of blood plasma. The toll: some 600 islanders dead, 700 seriously injured, 4,000 hurt and 100,000 homeless...
Curse of Drinks. For Northwestern University, Ott harnessed his cameras to a new-type microscope, took movies every six seconds of cancer cells multiplying as they fed on a saline-plasma solution. For the National Apple Institute, promoting apples for refreshment, he mounted a human tooth in plastic, kept two cameras on it for a year, taking shots every 2½^ hours as the tooth was bathed in a popular soft drink. Result: a movie of progressive tooth decay...
...turned out. The parade was fine: there was a reasonable facsimile of George Washington, a flock of sheep in the Future Fanners of America entry, and a church window made of colored paper. The winning float was a 12-ft., papier-mache Statue of Liberty with a flask of plasma in her right hand and a sheaf of bonds under her left arm. One student marcher confessed that his crim son Cossack coat was really a girl's bed jacket, and one of his medals was a high-school prize for oratory...
...Fearful that infectious hepatitis (jaundice) is being spread in all civilized countries by virus in blood and plasma, the World Health Organization issued a global warning: blood donors should be more carefully screened for jaundice carriers, and doctors should give transfusions only when absolutely necessary...