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HARRISBURG, Pa.--Engineers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant substantially shrank the potentially explosive gas bubble in the plant's reactor yesterday. The bubble, once as large as 1800 cubic feet, was reportedly reduced to 50 cubic feet...
...Minn.) State University. The Benedict family, originally from France (the first known ancestor came to colonial America after a stopover in England in the early 1700s), has been farming since Pat's great-grandfather moved to Minnesota from Wisconsin shortly after the Civil War. During the Depression the homestead shrank from 1,000 acres to 400 and father Edwin had to hunt partridges to help feed the family. But post-World War II prosperity enabled Edwin to buy another 300 acres when Pat began farming with...
...total of 93 cases. Only 22 of these cases were submitted with sufficient information and involved patients who had been treated solely with Laetrile during the time of evaluation. Of these, nine stayed the same, seven got worse, and only six showed improvement. In four of the six, tumors shrank more than 50%. Two had complete remissions; their cancer disappeared...
...Canadian migration stems from a discovery by Dr. Lyman Smith, an orthopedic surgeon in Elgin, Ill. In the early 1960s he found that injections of papain, a simple papaya extract, dissolved the nuclei of discs between the vertebrae of rabbits. As a result, the discs shrank. If papain had the same effect on human slipped discs, he reasoned, they would shrink back into place...
...Gaulle. Harry Truman sped to Wake Island to parley with General Douglas MacArthur in a Douglas DC-6 called the Independence. Ike was hailed throughout the world in the Columbine, a slope-nosed Lockheed Constellation. All made momentous trips, heightened by the marvel of American aviation that shrank the world dramatically with each new President...