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...remaining years of his life, Navyman Parsons had little to say of his fateful five hours. The years were few. One December night in 1953 Rear Admiral Parsons waked with sharp chest pain. He slipped silently downstairs in his Washington home, picked out to read Volume XI of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, methodically turned to the section marked Heart, Diseases of the. It was too late for Deke Parsons (52); he collapsed and died next...
Main trouble: AET is not yet ready even for testing on humans, let alone for the bathroom medicine chest, because it causes too many undesirable side effects-including nausea and a drop in blood pressure. How soon trials in human volunteers can begin, no man knows. (First subjects would be cancer patients who might be able to take higher and more curative doses of radiation.) Other snags: AET must be taken at least 15 minutes before exposure to radiation, gives full protection for only about an hour. It may take years to find related chemicals that will be less toxic...
...will close down if one is struck. While the U.A.W. would undoubtedly cry "Lockout!", the companies have legal precedent, of a sort, on their side.* The companies contend that the U.A.W. cannot afford a strike because unemployment and lagging dues have held the union's strike-war chest at $37.8 million, enough for only six weeks of benefit payments in an industry-wide walkout...
...gave her homage--from chest tattoos to neon bow-ties. We turned America into a matriarchy and emasculated our infant culture. We accorded Motherhood the sanctity of Death...
...replaced Johnny Weissmuller, the mobil-est Tarzan of them all. An Olympic champion and once the fastest swimmer in the world, Weissmuller also holds the record for longevity as the jungle hero: twelve versions over 16 years. Today's Tarzan is Gordon Scott, 30, with a 50-in. chest. A onetime lifeguard at a Las Vegas hotel, Scott is the first Tarzan in color and CinemaScope...