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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chillun. He took as his target the now well-known article by "X" which recently appeared in the magazine Foreign Affairs. "X" was George Kennan, top State Department planner and Russian expert. The State Department denied that the article inspired the Truman Doctrine, but the thinking behind both was certainly cut from the same cloth...
Peter's Heir. How, Lippmann wondered, could the Administration ever have developed such "an unworkable policy?" He believed it was "because Mr. X has neglected even to mention the fact that the Soviet Union is the successor of the Russian Empire and that Stalin is not only the heir of Marx and Lenin but of Peter the Great and the Czars of all the Russias...
Cancer's Causes? Investigators are beginning to learn some basic facts about how cancer cells differ from normal ones. In cancer, normal cells suddenly turn aggressive and invade normal tissues like voracious animals. Cancer experts know that cancers can be induced by certain chemicals, by hormones, by X rays, by nuclear radiation, by metal dusts, tobacco, or even the sun's ultraviolet rays...
...partial vacuum. But the Bureau's diamond counter will last longer, and it can be made much smaller than a Geiger counter. The little sensitive crystal can be tucked away in industrial equipment, or even inside the human body to measure the penetration of radiation, as in the X-ray treatment of cancer...
...medicine eventually caught on. When a medicine man objected to inoculations against typhoid, a Salsbury assistant showed him some contaminated water under a microscope: "See those bugs? They'll kill all of you if you don't let me help." The medicine man was impressed. Fascinated by X rays, the Indians began to troop to the hospital to have their pictures taken. Mission schoolchildren, envious of the attention paid to any classmate who had his appendix out, demanded to be operated...