Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Easily one of the most regrettably persistent myths in the contemporary world is the belief in the existence of "race"; a modern-day carry-over to an older belief in witchcraft-and the resultant feeling that measures must be taken to protect oneself from contamination. The sooner the public is made aware of the facts the better; your Essay was a step in the right direction...
Although it is not yet certain that low- ering the cholesterol level in a man's blood will protect him against artery disease, heart attacks and strokes, many doctors think it may and are willing to try using drugs to prove it. The first such drug, MER/29, had to be yanked off the market because of its severe side effects. Two others, Atromid-S and Choloxin, are now approved and so far appear to be safe, but because they work through metabolic and hormonal mechanisms, many physicians are keep ing their fingers crossed. Last week a Duke University surgeon...
...scientists are impressed, and hope to stage similar tests in the Great Plains hail belt. Physicist Byron Phillips, a hail expert for the U.S. Environmental Science Services Administration at Boulder, suggests that inexpensive ; rockets might be even more efficient. Eight rocket stations, he says, could protect the entire state of Kansas...
...says Miss Droppers, "it's not that we're puritanical--we protect these books because most of them are out of print...
...says Louis A. Sassow, acting head of Reference and Circulation, "those books are in the XR cage primarily to protect them from theft and mutilation...