Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Photo Finish, by the triply talented Peter Ustinov (writer, director and star), cleverly places an 80-year-old man beside his onstage 60-, 40-, and 20-year-old selves with amusing and ironic results. Ustinov's consummate mugging shores up the weak spots...
...weak, small corps is better than none at all, but it is difficult to see how this Congress will pass any legislation which would permit projects dealing with politically controversial problems, particularly in the South...
...varsity basketball team threw away a ten-point half-time lead but poured in six points in the final minute of play to whip weak Brown 62-58 in Providence last night. The victory vaults the Crimson into undisputed possession of fifth place in the Ivy League and should give the team a needed psychological boost for its game against Yale tonight in New Haven...
Sabin vaccine is made from "attenuated" live virus, virus which has been bred from selected strains of weak virus. The question has been raised as to the possibility that the weakened virus might mutate back to its wild, virulent state, regaining its deadly ability to attack the human nervous system. It is this question that forced Sabin to prolong his field tests, but today it seems clear that his strains are genetically stable and therefore safe, as now proven in over 140 million vaccinated persons...
...entry of the natural virus and protecting against non-paralytic polio, neither of which the Salk vaccine can do. Although one does of oral vaccine immunizes indefinitely against any one type of virus, three doses are needed for Types I, II, and III. The live virus, while too weak to attack the nerve tissue or produce symptoms of disease, causes the human host to produce the necessary antibodies. Furthermore, the virus retains its capacity to spread contagiously. Thus the inoculation of part of a community can eventually cause the spread of immunity to the entire populace, at the same time...