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Also receiving fellowships were Dr. Arthur P. Dempster, professor of Theoretical Statistics -- the concepts and reasoning processes of statistical inference; Dr. A. Stone Freedberg, associate professor of Medicine -- the effects of thyroid and other hormonal alternations on atrial intracellular potentials and jonic movements; Dr. Kenneth J. Gergen, assistant professor of Social Psychology -- an examination of benefice as an instrument of international policy...
...most active elements in the fallout has been iodine-131, which gets into grass, then into cows, then into milk, and then into children who drink the milk. In children, even more than in adults, the radioactive iodine (like ordinary iodine) is selectively attracted to the thyroid gland...
...over possible effects of fallout on children's health, then staged mass examinations last fall in St. George and in Safford, an Arizona town of similar size that has suffered no appreciable fallout. Among 2,000 children examined in St. George, 70 (or 3.5%) had nodules on their thyroid glands, as against only 25 out of 1,400 (or 1.75%) in Safford. Were the nodules cancerous? Was the fallout to blame...
Last week Surgeon General William H. Stewart of the U.S. Public Health Service announced the first results of the intensive study. No cancers have been found, he said. There are several cases of inflamed thyroids, and proportionately more of these are among the St. George children than among the Safford children. Added Dr. Stewart: inflammation of the thyroid seems to have increased recently in many widely separated parts of the U.S., and there is no proof that radiation, from fallout or other sources, has anything to do with...
...McNamara, hospitalized for a thyroid ailment, was the only absentee- the Administration needed 66 votes to close down Dirksen's filibuster. It remained for Hubert Humphrey, president of the Senate, to announce how far short of the mark the Administration had fallen. "On this vote," boomed Humphrey when the tally was completed, "there are 51 yeas and 48 nays. Two-thirds of the Senators present and voting not having voted in the affirmative, the cloture motion is rejected." Two days later Mansfield tried again; this time the vote was 50 to 49 for cloture. Thus repeal...