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...Senator Jack B. Tenney, 56, whose political record is far from comely. Tenney represents the big 38th District (which takes in Los Angeles County, with more than 4,000,000 people). He was chairman of the legislature's McCarthyite Red-hunting committee and once wrote a Christian Nationalist tract, Zionist Network. Mrs. Younger has decided to run against...
...virus multiplies somewhere along the digestive tract and is excreted from the intestines. In unsanitary societies, everybody is soon exposed to the virus. If the challenge of infection comes in earliest infancy, that is good. For if the mother has been exposed and has antibodies, she passes them on to her baby. They stay in the baby's bloodstream, giving "passive immunity" (TIME, Nov. 5, 1951) for about three months. Exposure to the virus during that time usually causes no detectable symptoms, but results in lifelong, active immunity...
...cause of the trouble is. Some doctors believe that it lies in the mucous glands, which secrete an unusually thick, viscid mucus. This clogs the lung airways and also blocks the tiny ducts in the pancreas, so that its enzymes (notably trypsin) do not get through to the digestive tract. Others think the pancreas itself is at fault, and that its failure to produce enough enzymes causes both the intestinal trouble and the stickiness of the mucus...
...merchandise on its Dallas-Houston, Fort Worth-Houston and Texas-Louisiana runs. ANHEUSERBusch, which opens - its new $15 million Los Angeles brewery (TIME, Oct. 26) this week, is also looking for a bigger share of the Gulf Coast market. It is buying a 150-acre tract at New Orleans, will build a $20 million brewery with a 1,000,000 bbl.-a-year capacity...
...much more than a stone's throw from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington is a barren, 11½-acre tract on the Potomac on which stand only two empty gas storage tanks. Last week a New York building syndicate announced that it plans to build there a $70 to $80 million Rockefeller Center-like development, with six office buildings, a shopping center, raised plaza and skating rink, 1,003-room hotel, 2,000-car underground garage and two apartment buildings...