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While Americans were wondering just what to make of the anti-U.S. riots on Formosa last week, the press elsewhere around the world offered instant X rays by the dozen. From the propaganda potshots of Peking and Moscow to the emotional outbursts of Manila and Bangkok, few verdicts were favorable to the U.S. The most damaging to U.S. internationalism were the well-meant missiles of friends and allies that homed in on the very self-doubts that the violence had triggered in the U.S. press...
Natural "background" radiation from cosmic rays and radioactive materials in the earth does some damage to the human body. In the pre-atomic past the human species kept ahead of this damage, but many scientists are worried about new ' sources of radiation, such as medical and dental X rays, "hot labs" and nuclear reactors. They fear that a point may come when the human species will lose its struggle with radiation and begin to deteriorate...
Geneticist E. B. Lewis, also of Caltech, proves in Science that leukemia (a cancer-like blood disease) is indeed caused by radiation. He uses statistics covering Japanese atom-bomb victims and three types of Americans exposed to large amounts of X rays. Strontium 90, he believes, will have the same effect. He figures that if its concentration in U.S. bones ever rises to one-tenth of what the AEC considers the "maximum permissible concentration," leukemia in the U.S. will increase...
...Dental X-rays of entering students have found that 64 percent of the Class of 1960 have dental defects in need of attention. The survey was conducted by the University Health Services. Bitewing dental films were taken of 2,218 entering students in the University...
...students in the entry have been asked to undergo immediate chest X-rays and tuberculin tests, Dr. John C. Wells, Assistant University Health Service Physician, said last night. Wells emphasized that the tuberculosis cases are not "unique," and pointed out that two instances of the disease were also reported last year...