Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Influenza vaccines today are often made worthless because the virus changes its nature and defeats them. The trick is to beat the virus to the draw, and have a suitable vaccine ready before a virulent strain can start an epidemic. "This is why," says Burnet quietly, "even the most academic-seeming investigations, such as mine, may one day become a matter of life and death...
...strain of preparing the Government's case had been so great that Attorney Hotchkiss collapsed from nervous exhaustion. The Government was granted a five-week adjournment. This development raised the question whether the entire Government case might not collapse if Hotchkiss is unable to continue. He has been working on the case since 1949, has plowed through 100,000 documents almost singlehanded, and whittled them down to 1,200 for trial use. Thus, he is virtually the only Government attorney with the background to prosecute the case...
Since 1928, when he organized the Hellabrunn Zoo and began his experiments in Riickzüchtung (backward breeding), Geneticist Heck has developed his tarpans and a herd of aurochs, the beefy, bison-like ancestors of modern cattle. Neither strain has any domestic value, but both have shown unusual resistance to disease. "The day may come," said Dr. Heck last week, "when our highly bred, high-strung modern breeds will need a shot of their wild ancestors' blood to revitalize them...
Diector Joseph Newman attempts to pick up the middle parts with a series of hallucinations, a sometimes humorous half-breed, a white-haired Indian woman, and a grubby little orphan. The latter almost carries the picture, but his small back gives way from the strain after about 15 minutes. The heroine, Penny Edwards, spends most of the movie bound, gagged, and hidden away in a tepee...
...will find a skeleton of a school. Walter Gropius, who led Design to the pinnacle of architectural prominency, left this year, rather than work with a flimsy budget. Many of the other professors have remained to teach part time only, supplementing small salaries with outside contracts. The rest strain under an unbearably heavy load, leaving no time for research or individual attention for the school's students. No new dean can merely step in and pull the school back together again with one decisive motion; its parts have drifted away, some irretrievably...