Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alpha activity is not harmful externally, causes trouble only when it enters the bloodstream through the mouth or cuts in the skin. Hanford has yet to suffer its first fatality from radiation...
...twenty or so buildings, however, only the Royal Festival Concert Hall will be permanent. Supposedly, the Hall is as acoustically perfect as any building, intended to seat 3,300 spectators, a symphony orchestra of 100, and a choir of 250, can be. The Hall wears a double skin; inside the first wall there is another, the aim being to keep the building's concert hall completely free of outside noise. The double wall will even make it possible to tune the concert hall...
...seemingly mysterious deaths of six babies, from three weeks to seven months old (four in Baltimore, one in Boston, one in New York City) were traced .by Dr. Fisher to boric-acid poisoning. The supposedly soothing chemical had been absorbed through inflamed skin and had damaged tissues in the pancreas, liver and kidneys. Young babies are especially susceptible, Fisher thinks; he has found no fatalities in infants over seven months. Further finding: there is little danger with commercial baby powders in which boric acid is diluted with inert talc...
...summer-weight suits to go on sale in 75 stores for $79.50. These suits are a blend of 55% Dacron and 45% wool. Hart Schaffner & Marx says it added the wool because all Dacron builds up a charge of static electricity during dry weather, clings to the skin. Du Pont has been working on this, has made a lot of progress in solving...
...copies) painted a terrifying picture of a totalitarian church at war with U.S. democracy. His new one is Communism, Democracy and Catholic Power. It enlarges on and reiterates his earlier theme, but something new is added: the Kremlin and the Vatican are really quarreling brothers under the skin, each trying to set up "authoritarian control over the minds...