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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the U.S. Government's patience was running out on another hugand-tug type of foreign diplomat in Washington. Name: Mikhail Alekseevich Menshikov, ambassador of the U.S.S.R., who has carried Dictator Khrushchev's stop-nuclear tests and let's-have-a-parley-at-the-summit propaganda to the U.S. public via TV press conferences, businessmen's dinners and cultural wingdings with such sincere style that he got the nickname of "Smiling Mike" (TIME, March 17 et seq.). Sample exchange: Q. How can we trust you on stopping nuclear tests when you violated the armistice...
...afternoon a cluster of Communist officials turned up at the monastery and started ransacking it. When a female clerk tried to phone her superiors, a buxom Anna Pauker type snatched the phone out of her hands and tore it from the wall. The Communists did not stop to examine their loot: papers and mimeograph machines were dumped helter-skelter into sacks. Soon an angry crowd of pilgrims formed outside the building, and one official nervously summoned the police. Police arrived armed with gas masks and swinging truncheons...
...combat epidemics of paralytic polio in the Belgian Congo, he got World Health Organization backing and Congo government funds, arranged a mass trial. Wistar Institute brewed big batches of two strains of polio virus: Chat (named from the initials of the child from whom it was taken), belonging to Type 1, and Fox III (named for a doctor who isolated it from a child victim), belonging to Type 3. Both strains were attenuated, i.e., they were grown in different media (including mice) until they lost all power to cause paralysis, though they could still stimulate the human system to produce...
...Type 1 virus was causing most of the Congo's paralytic polio, Koprowski and colleagues found. They gave the Chat strain in capsules to 1,978 schoolchildren, found that none got sick, and all but two developed good antibody protection. It was exactly the same later with Fox III -all but two of the children responded well. The researchers were ready for a truly big-scale test...
...flunked out of it on one of three tests: a sophomore essay, a junior general examination, or a senior examination, probably somewhat more specific in nature than junior year generals. The committee requested that tutroial be increased in importance, that it be counted more heavily in weighing the type of Honors degree with which the student would graduate, and that this tutorial be given on an individual rather than group basis, and by as many ranking Faculty members as possible. All junior and senior Honors students would take tutorial as a fourth course--for credit...