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...reported Drs. Richard Ormsbee and Ivor Cornman, podophyllin cannot be used on cancer patients until someone isolates its cancer-killing element and separates that from the rest. In any sizable quantity, the root is poisonous...
...portentous moral issues involved"-even suggest a design for a convenient-size bottle of death: "Culture preparations of bacteria or viruses . . . might be dispensed, either in liquid suspension or in dry form, in thin-walled glass ampules. . . . To insure the breaking on contact with water, a gas-generating element like those used in fire extinguishers might be included...
Marchand packed up his brushes, went off into the Burgundy woods. Last week he was back in Paris with the result-one of the season's best shows. There was still an element of Picasso in Marchand's painting but there was a lot of Marchand too, and also a strong hint of a new girl...
...vociferous alumni element has recently been proposing, in the pages of the Alumni Bulletin, that the School be converted to Humanism--faith in man substituted for faith in God. Aside from theoretical merit or demerit of such a proposal, it is legally blocked by the School's constitution, which definitely specifies that the School be undenominational...
...above and beyond these considerations lies the refugee problem, in which time remains the crucial element. It would be criminal for either the mandatory power or the UN to put relief for the Dps until Palestine's political status is settled, a prospect that now seems months or years away. It may be that the UN itself should sponsor immigration of 100,000 Jews into Palestine while the forth-coming investigation takes place. At no other time could the real and not the imagined effects of large scale Jewish immigration be under such careful UN scrutiny. The results of such...