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...Scheele and Shannon of P.H.S. gave short shrift to the Salk straight-line inactivation theory. It simply does not work that way in practice, they said: a minute quantity of live.virus may always remain in the vaccine. However, they hastened to add, the vaccine can be made so safe that the chances of its causing polio will be negligible compared with the protection it will offer against polio...
...interpreted as a flip: "Don't ask silly questions." Mendelssohn, who was the No. i darling of Grove IV, with 60 florid pages ("Few instances can be found in history of a man so amply gifted with every good quality of mind and heart"), gets his shrift shortened. Grove V explains that he expected a minimum of intellectual effort from his audiences and failed to write a successful opera because he was unwilling to "speak of his own emotional life: to exhibit naked feeling appeared as a breach of etiquette." Mild-mannered Cyclopedist Blom, 66, also sharpened...
Maryland was not alone in plotting new directions. Last week the University of Chicago, which has long given short shrift to teacher training, announced that teachers, and students preparing to teach, would henceforth only have to pay half tuition...
Mendès' critics seemed less perturbed by Geneva itself than by their fear that Mendes might get too much of the credit. Only Georges Bidault dared to compare Geneva to Munich; he drew only skimpy applause from his own Roman Catholic M.R.P. Party, and short shrift from Mendès. By a thundering vote, of 462 to 13, with 152 absent or abstaining (the latter mostly from Bidault's M.R.P.), the Assembly hailed "the cessation of hostilities in Indo-China, due in large measure to the decisive action of the Premier...
...from the hanging procedure same in the case of an 81-year-old man, Giles Cory. Arraigned on witchcraft charges before the Salem court, Cory steadfastly refused to answer any of the judges questions, even disregarding their demand that he plead guilty or not guilty. The magistrate made short shrift of the old man, however; he was pressed to death with huge stones for his stubborn silence...