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...A.M.A. launched its study two years after Dr. Herbert Berger of the New York Medical Society charged that the use of the pills was widespread in sport (TIME, June 17, 1957), intimated that they might be responsible for the rash of four-minute miles (the milers denied using pep pills). Though the use of pep pills has been banned for years by both the Amateur Athletic Union and the International Amateur Athletic Federation, seven of 773 college and high school coaches replying to the A.M.A.'s mail survey admitted they used pep pills on their athletic squads. Presumably, there...
...human kidney and amnion, and finally chick embryo cells. Despite this "attenuation," it has retained its power to stimulate the system to produce antibodies against itself-just as does an attack of the natural disease, which confers lifelong immunity. Some children who got this vaccine developed a slight rash and low fever, but no severe illness, and within three weeks had full-scale antibody protection...
...press-and to keep the reader swallowing the party pill. With full official sanction, newspapers began criticizing each other: "Soviet newspapers," wrote Pravda in a recent and scathing Press Day editorial, "are insipid, lifeless, deadly dull and difficult to read." Komsomolskaya Pravda, the youth paper, erupted in a rash of sensational feature stories, e.g., "What Role Does Love Play in Marriage?" Pravda's publishing house gave birth to a new daily, Sovetskaya Rossia, which in three years has built a circulation of 1,500,000 by offering jaded citizens a giddy diet of local news, lively pictures, display...
...most remarkable phenomena of the bull market has been the rash of stock splits, and the way they have sent stocks scooting up. Staid old American Telephone & Telegraph, for 73 years a holdout against splitting, soared 65 points from 202 within a few weeks after its 3-for-1 split announcement. So popular has splitting become that 80 major companies have registered or announced splits this year, and Wall Streeters feel sure that the old record of 181 splits (in 1955) will be topped before the year is out. While stock splits have gladdened many a stockholder, they have produced...
...unfortunate accidents marred the practice this wek as last year's varsity stroke fractured a rib while rowing on the junior varsity. How long he will be out is still uncertain. Also, varsity coxswain Barry Peale came down with a face rash, forcing Love to substitute the 3rd boat coxswain into the first shell for several practices...