Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carroll's intoxicating vision of the future: synthetic liquors, produced more quickly and cheaply than by present fermentation processes, with just the bouquet that the connoisseur wants, and far less risk of hangover. More important, a congener may be a big factor in the "just one more" reaction leading to chronic alcoholism, and this one could be left out. Meanwhile, Carroll noted that vodka is lowest in congeners; next purest is gin, then Scotch, then bourbon. Blended whiskies vary according to their proportions (and there are differences among brands). The drink with the most...
GENEVA, April 13--The United States and Britain proposed a prompt termination of atmospheric and underwater nuclear tests today, but the initial Soviet reaction to the proposal was cool...
Radiation in doses exceeding about 400 r. (for roentgen) is usually fatal because it destroys the bone marrow's blood-forming mechanism, and it incidentally suppresses the antibody reaction. Theoretically, it should be possible to cure many cases of radiation injury by injecting bone-marrow cells from donors while the patient's antibody production is knocked out. And in acute leukemia, when the bone marrow is secreting abnormal cells, it might be possible to destroy the marrow deliberately with massive radiation, then replace it with healthy marrow. It has worked in mice and dogs, but the human system...
Twenty Punctures. Most striking success in getting around the antibody reaction-at least for the time being-was reported by France's Dr. Henri Jammet to the United Nations in Manhattan. His subjects were six atomic scientists (five men and a woman) who had been exposed to normally fatal radiation in a reactor accident at Vinca, Yugoslavia's equivalent of Oak Ridge. The patients were flown to Paris, lodged in the Hopital Curie. The mildest case, estimated to have absorbed 400 r., got better with conventional treatment-blood transfusions, special diet, rigorous protection against infection. The other five...
Because only one in about 200 people has an identical twin to serve as donor, Dr. Thomas has tried injecting another child leukemia victim with marrow cells taken from a fetus in a therapeutic abortion. (Fetal cells rarely trigger the antibody reaction.) It is too early, he said, to judge results in this case...