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...Berlin as President Kennedy's special representative. General Watson, in a complex chain of command from the Pentagon and the State Department, can hardly make a move without clearing it in advance with Washington. Like the men under him. he lives with the somber instructions that a single rash decision could trigger World...
Price wars have spread like a rash across the nation, dumping prices in some places to as low as 13.9? per gal. (it remains 35.9? in New York City). Business is so competitive that last year 37% of the nation's 220,000 service stations changed hands or closed down, the highest turnover rate in U.S. retailing. In Chicago, where the battle is sharpest, half of the stations changed hands. The war has hit the major oil companies where it hurts most: the profits of Gulf, Sun, Indiana Standard and Sinclair were down by 9% to 24% in this...
...Time, Two Shots. The original measles vaccine developed by Harvard Virologist John F. Enders (TIME cover, Nov. 17, 1961) and co-workers is highly effective. But used alone, the attenuated (weakened but still live) virus causes fever in 80% of vaccinees, and a rash in 50%-reactions too much like natural measles to be acceptable to many parents. The killed-virus vaccine does not have these side effects, but neither, says Enders, does it confer long-lasting immunity...
...live vaccine, and at the same time they give an injection of human gamma globulin, the blood fraction that contains antibodies against measles as well as against other diseases. The "GG" has staved off fever in all but about 20% of children already double-vaccinated and has eliminated the rash in all but 3%. Most important, the GG does not keep the children from developing enough of their own antibodies to give them lasting protection against natural measles...
...they got a needle in each buttock. The one child in five who gave a blood sample will be bled again in about a month, for comparison of before-and-after antibody levels. All parents got a form on which to report whether their children develop a fever or rash...