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High above India's plains, now sweltering in the 105° heat that comes before the summer monsoon, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was taking his first vacation in three years. Nehru was bone-tired; black circles ringed his eyes. In the cool. British-built hill station of Chakrata, Nehru slept under blankets, went for long walks on the fir-clad slopes, drew loud cheers from local admirers when he rode a pony onto the local parade ground and neatly guided it through a perfect figure eight...
Bishop also devoted two columns to people who, though far from diminutive, could be classified as Little People's People: Pope Pius XII ("he has the bone hurting handshake of a farm boy") and the late Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger-who gave Biographer Bishop (The Mark Hellinger Story) early, well-heeded lessons in Hearstmanship. Sample Hellinger commandments to Bishop: "Use only short words"; "the way to write a sob story is to be callous"; "before writing, always read a few hundred words of your favorite author...
Libby did not deny that there was risk in the tests; for example, "excessive dosages" of strontium 90 can cause bone cancer and leukemia in animals, "so we should not casually dismiss the possibility of harmful results from fallout." But the risk appears to be remote. Reason: there is no present evidence that people living at high altitudes or on land with heavy uranium deposits are more susceptible to these diseases than anyone else. In sum, the risk to man from H-bomb testing "is extremely small compared with risks which persons everywhere take as a normal part of their...
...Feel & Position. Nos. 10 and 11 are esoteric senses, little known but of great importance: vibratory and two-point discrimination sense. The vibratory sense is lodged in bone, which can feel the vibration of a tuning fork even when surrounding tissue cannot. Two-point discrimination (in itself a two-part sensory apparatus) can best be demonstrated with a schoolboy's compass whose steel and pencil points are an inch apart. Held against the back, this feels like a single object -the skin of the back has little two-point discrimination, and may need to have the compass spread three...
...lethal radiation. AET was developed at the Atomic Energy Commission's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Still to be determined: the drug's long-term effect on the treated monkeys and any possible application to humans. Working on another AEC project, Overman is testing the effect of bone marrow injections on radiation damage. High doses of radiation disrupt the normal production of blood elements, causing dangerous anemia and other side effects. Using a technique first developed on mice, Overman has saved monkeys after exposure to normally lethal radiation (700 roentgens) by injections of bone marrow from nonirradiated monkeys...