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...Ustinov abstains because he cannot understand the diplomatic bafflegab in which it is written. The Russians and the Americans present ultimatums: accept massive aid, or else. But dollars and rubles would wreck the Concordian economy, which has operated smoothly for hundreds of years because the money it circulates is worthless. The Concordian leader counters by promoting a romance between Igor Romanoff (John Gavin), son of the Russian ambassador, and Juliet Mouls-worth (Sandra Dee), daughter of the American ambassador...
Initial Conclusion: By all means, read Schelling and Halperin. Nearly every reader of this review will find Hadley totally worthless...
...American Medical Association has consistently backed Salk vaccine as the most effective means of preventing paralytic poliomyelitis. Last week in seeming contradiction, the A.M.A. Journal printed a judgment that "much of the Salk vaccine used in the U.S. has been worthless" - a charge that could snarl plans to get millions of Americans inoculated before polio begins its 1961 northward march with advancing summer. The Scripps-Howard newspapers headlined the statement, and Congressman Kenneth Roberts of Alabama urged an investigation...
...facts are that some Salk shots have been worthless because the vaccine lost its potency with age, or because manufacturers, determined to make it safe, overdid the job of inactivating the virus. Despite this, overall effectiveness of Salk vaccine in preventing paralytic polio has ranged statistically from 75% to 90%. As Dr. Jonas E. Salk retorted: "The continued occurrence of polio is not due primarily to failure of the vaccine, but to failure to use it." But most authorities admit that for fuller protection, the U.S. needs a more potent vaccine, probably the Sabin oral type, which should be available...
Lust for Lies. The choice is significant; to Keller the state is not necessarily a higher concern than art, but serving the state is a high honor, and bohemianism a worthless existence. It is not hard to see the beginning of Germanic nationalism in the fascination that order, group effort and government have for Keller and the Swiss and German townspeople he describes. The author is at his most rhapsodic as he tells of the incredible organization of a pre-Lenten carnival, or rambles on about a dream in which Identity of the Nation is represented by crowds tramping purposefully...