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Welter of Waste. Military learning is also balm for the unemployment problem: at least 60% of what the services teach is directly applicable to civilian jobs. Hundreds of thousands of servicemen go back to become everything from auto mechanic to bacteriologist to weatherman. Almost 100,000 men now in the services have been raised to the equivalent of a high school education since they entered-a figure equal to about a tenth of the nation's annual school dropout rate...
...Glen, then nine, badgered Slaton to teach him and his fellow Cub Scouts how to get the most out of their new chemistry sets. Slaton was soon teaching chemistry to 20 Cubs in his home, got a bacteriologist to teach the use of microscopes. Response was so eager that Slaton had to branch into electronics...
...Bacteriologist Gordon E. Green of Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital told the American Dental Association last week that about 1% of the adult population, regardless of racial origin, seems to be completely immune to tooth decay. Neither the amount of fluoridated water consumed during childhood nor the number of germs in the mouths seems to make any difference. In the saliva of these fortunate persons, reported Dr. Green, he has found an antibacterial substance. He still does not know what it is, only that it is a protein and resembles the proteins of which antibodies are composed...
Established under the will of the late Bacteriologist William A. Hinton, the first Negro professor at Harvard University: a scholarship fund of nearly $75,000 to be named in honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower, in recognition of Ike's accomplishments "toward the acceptance of the principle of equal opportunity for all." Responded Eisenhower, when he heard of the fund:; "I cannot recall having been given a personal distinction that has touched me more deeply...
Hinton, a bacteriologist and immunologist, devised the widely-used Hinton text for syphilis and taught Harvard medical students for 1918 until his retirement...