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...Angeles' Kerckhoff Mansion, which belongs to the University of Southern California, 70 small spiders (Zilla x-notata) are living in pampered luxury. Their room is air-conditioned, and every day delicious flies are handed to them alive. They have little paper cones to live in and water to drink from cups made of soda straws. Being creatures of inflexible habit, they spin beautifully regular webs in frames supplied for the purpose...
Brain & Heart. The hospital's first surgeon in chief was the late great Harvey Gushing, who immediately began to develop the improvements in technique which made brain surgery a lifesaving, everyday procedure. Working side by side with Gushing was a radiologist. Dr. Merrill Sosman, who pioneered X-ray treatment for pituitary tumors. In 1920 Surgeon Elliott Cutler made a daring attempt at surgery inside the heart, to correct a narrowed mitral valve; it was crude and premature (all but one patient died), but it helped pave the way for one of his pupils, Dwight Emary Harken...
...family on how to continue it. ij Stanford University radiologists reported hopefully on one year's use of the first linear accelerator built for medical purposes: a 6,000,000-volt unit, it generates electrons in a straight line, fires them at precious-metal targets to produce X-rays that can be focused sharply on cancers deep in the body. Of 74 patients treated, with a variety of tumors in the throat, lungs, prostate, kidney, bladder and brain, two-thirds now show no sign of disease, though no cures will be claimed for five years...
WORLD'S FASTEST PLANE, rocket-propelled X-15, with potential speed of 3,500 to 4,000 m.p.h., is being built at North American Aviation's Los Angeles plant. For it New Jersey's Reaction Motors is developing rocket engine with greater thrust than that of Bell X-2 plane that flew to 126,000 ft. and 1,900 m.p.h...
...Breathe Only Out. In London, Dr. H.O.J. Collier suggested that in view of the increasing hazards of radiation, modern health rules be distilled to three essentials: i) stop seeing the doctor and thus avoid X rays: 2) drink no milk, thus limit intake of cesium-137 (a radioactive isotope) j 3) stay indoors to be shielded from cosmic rays...