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...least known and most successful work is its continuing effort to rescue half the world's population from poverty and distress. With a yearly budget of barely one thousandth of the world's yearly arms bill, a handful of U.N. men and women are seeking by peaceful means to bridge the gap between the haves and the havenots...
...George W. Thorn and colleagues found that they had a synthetic hormone far more powerful than the natural ones. Still available only in pinhead quantities for research, it controlled a far-advanced case of Addison's disease, even when the dose was cut to one one-hundred-thousandth...
...Henderson's opinion, he does indeed presume, and soon there is the usual thrashing about in the undergrowth, and rather more than the usual slithering of crocodiles toward dainty feminine morsels. And when Heroine Grain says for what must surely be the thousandth time in this kind of picture. "I can make a bandage out of my petticoat," even the lion who is about to eat her looks...
...their first movie case. Sergeant Friday (Jack Webb ) and Officer Frank Smith (Ben Alexander) are assigned to discover who put the blast on a bookie's runner with a sawed-off shotgun. The audience is avalanched for the thousandth time with infinite details of police procedure. Relief is provided in the usual Dragnet style by tight little tick-offs of "types": a dainty curator of natural history, a folksy cardsharp, the victim's hard-drinking, one-legged wife...
...eclipse, 2) watching photoelectrically for the moment when the light from the sun is weakest, 3) photographing the sun's spectrum, which changes character sharply during the event. Use of all three methods, the scientists hope, will give the instant of totality to one hundredth or even one thousandth of a second. Thus, the distance between North America and Europe may be computed with an error of only...