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Last week, in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, doctors found a tentative answer and a disturbing charge. Toronto's Dr. Brian P.L. Moore sifted a mass of data, found that incompatibility reactions occurred at a rate ranging from i per 2,000 bottles to 1 per 10,000, with an average of 1 per 4,200. But for each obvious reaction there are at least four cases where incompatibility causes a hidden sensitization, preparing the ground for trouble with the next transfusion or the next pregnancy. So the overall risk is closer to 1 in 600, Dr. Moore concludes...
...businessmen met, the latest statistics from Washington underscored their forecasts. Gross national product was rising even faster than the preliminary estimates, reached an annual rate of $467 billion for the first quarter of 1959. More important, the gain was real: with hardly any price rise to speak of since last year, the new G.N.P. showed an 8% jump in constant dollars from the recession...
GOLD PRICE RISE on London market to $35.145 an ounce, close to record, has been spurred by speculation U.S. Treasury may raise gold price above official U.S. rate of $35.0875 because of outflow of U.S. gold (TIME, May 18). But Treasury has no intention of doing...
...study of Southern degeneracy and of the influence of foreign blood on a corrupt system. In point of fact, it is a telescoping of two earlier short plays--Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton and The Long Stay Cut Short--and, for Williams at least, is a second-rate work. The story concerns itself with Baby Doll, a delicious but nearly brainless child of twenty, who is legally though not in fact the wife of Archie Lee Meighan, a middle-aged owner of a broken-down cotton gin. Goaded beyond endurance by his wife's refusal to consummate the marriage...
Yale is losing more than the varsity, and perhaps not picking up as much. At any rate, next May's Yale match will no doubt once again decide the Eastern and Big Three championships, and Barnaby and his men hope to pick those crowns back up again. They should have a fine chance of doing...