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...long, the fire ant has a peculiar talent: it chews a slit in the skin of its victim, lifts the skin with its mandibles, curves its abdomen under its body and injects a dose of fluid which causes fiery pain, raises angry welts, and may form a pocket of pus. Victims highly sensitive to ant poison may be hospitalized for weeks; a baby in New Orleans was killed by the ants...
...reach an equation on the top of the blackboard, or tutoring a troubled student long after hours, "Little Al" has become the most popular figure on cam pus - a gentle man who had a habit of quietly slipping his own money into scholarships for impoverished pupils and "who believes," as the 1914 yearbook puts it, "that there is good in every man and seeks to make that good predominate." Columbia's Talbot Hamlin, 65, ranking U.S. architectural historian, authority on early 19th century American architecture, editor of the monumental (four volumes, $80) Forms and Functions of Twentieth Century Architecture...
...less than 81 cases of streptococcal sore throat were found among patrons of a college dining room, and were traced to the least excusable source: pus draining from the wound of a cook who had cut his thumb...
Bostonians will have to get used to some radical new architecture across the Charles River Basin on the M.I.T. cam pus. In 1950, M.I.T. commissioned Michigan Architect Eero Saarinen, whose wicketlike design for a Jefferson memorial in St. Louis caused a sensation five years ago (TIME, March 8, 1948), to submit plans for a new campus center with auditorium and chapel. Saarinen's idea: to challenge the age-old rectangle with a new pattern of spheres, cylinders and triangles...
Pyromen is a complex, sugarlike chemical manufactured by bacteria related to the organism which makes blue pus in wounds. Neither Dr. Schopp nor anybody else has any idea yet as to how it works on damaged nerves, if it really does. A versatile substance, it is being tried in the treatment of allergy. And doctors are keeping their fingers crossed while Pyromen is tested on other kinds of paralysis and (at the Mayo Clinic) on multiple sclerosis...