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...droplet in a teaspoonful of syrup, and the kids swallowed it-thus cutting out the need for hypodermic needles, which are expensive and can be dangerous. Then there was the economy: one-hundredth of the injection dose. Perhaps most important: live virus taken by mouth multiplies in the digestive tract, quickly triggers development of antibodies and protects the whole system. The Russians argue that the killed form, injected into the bloodstream, safeguards only the nervous system (against paralysis...
...expected big trouble when the season's main flood waters hit the dam-and we have got it," said a dispirited game warden last week as he stood on the banks of Rhodesia's man-made Kariba lake. Before his weary, red-rimmed eyes lay a vast tract of drowning land. Two hundred yards away a dozen monkeys clung to the rocky crown of a tiny island that was being swallowed up in the dappled waters. The monkeys' ribs showed through their shrunken skin, their liquid, pleading eyes turned desperately this way and that...
Bethlehem has dropped its plan to merge with Youngstown Sheet and Tube because of the trustbusters' opposition (TIME, Dec. 1). But it still hopes to compete harder in the Midwest market, possibly by building a plant on its 3,500-acre tract near Gary...
Crisis of Faith. Snow's novel follows the familiar pattern of a pietistic tract-vocation, doubts, doubts resolved, ordination, temptation, temptation defeated, final serenity of soul. Its hero and narrator is Arthur Miles, only son of a poor, Nonconformist family, who finds his vocation for science by reading H. G. Wells and looking at the evening star through a toy telescope. By arduously won scholarships, he finds himself at King's College, London, peering at crystals and within reach of the Royal Society ("my Mecca and my Westminster and my Rome"). A vision of sanctity comes to Miles...
...unit motel will be built on the Brattle Sq. parking lot, adjacent to the MTA yards. John Briston Sullivan and William J. Chase, founders of The New England Motel, Inc., paid the City of Cambridge $30,736 for the 17,500 square foot tract...