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...dispassionate. His belief in the frontal attack-what he calls "cancer, research with one eye on the cancer of man" -has led him into more than one chase after rainbows, such as a universal blood test for cancer. But it has also led him, after a trying period of roundabout research into the function of the prostate gland in dogs, to castration...
...proper study of mankind may be man, but writers from Aesop to George Orwell have found animals just as handy. Latest to study mankind by animal roundabout is French-born Novelist Raoul Faure, 43, a resident of California since 1941, who uses lizards for his parable, The Cave and the Rock...
Wisconsin's junior Senator got into the blockade business by a roundabout way. His subcommittee is investigating the use of surplus U.S. merchant ships turned over to other countries. The State Department, according to McCarthy, had tried and failed to get agreements stopping shipments to Red China. Said McCarthy: "No one had ever contacted the owners of the ships before. Negotiations had always been with the Greek government...
...husband. Last fall, everything was set. The National Foundation shipped out a rocking bed, a wheelchair, an iron lung, a portable respirator and oddments of other equipment. It arranged with the Military Air Transport Service to fly Kidder west. He made the trip in an iron lung (by a roundabout scenic route), with MATS supplying a forklift to heft him in & out of the plane's extra-wide doors...
Ever since All Fools' Day, 1949, when it was taken away from prison authority and given to the Ministry of Health, the big, grim hospital has been known officially as the Broadmoor Institution. Many a Berkshire villager roundabout ardently wishes it would go back to its honest old name: Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Broadmoor's tenants, the villagers feel, are far too dangerous to be treated as mere hospital patients. Take, for example, young John Thomas Straffen...