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Cone to Crazy Quilt. With such castoffs, Cézanne did the spadework for cubism. He laid the landscape bare to its essential structure, yet cloaked it in a crazy quilt of color like a Jack Frost with spring fever. Unlike his contemporary impressionists, he wanted to show the unchanging longitude and latitude of the earth rather than the fleeting snapshot of the instant. But he left to the later cubists the task of actually depicting the geometry of "the cylinder, the sphere, the cone" of his famous dictum on the elements...
...Moritz or Davos. Hence the reluctance of Zermatt's townsmen to talk about the curious wave of illness that began popping up three months ago. They stolidly ignored word from a Zurich physician that a patient just back from skiing in Zermatt was down with typhoid fever. They also shrugged off a report that an Italian immigrant working near Zermatt had fallen ill with the same disease...
Also licensed was a killed-virus vaccine made by Charles Pfizer & Co., which will have supplies ready in about a month. This vaccine causes no fever or rash, but it requires three injections spread over several weeks...
...licensed Merck Sharp & Dohme to distribute a live but attenuated vaccine, like the one developed by Dr. John F. Enders (TIME cover, Nov. 17, 1961) at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston. It is immediately available and is highly effective. But in many children, it causes some fever and a rash, so many pediatricians will simultaneously give the child a shot of gamma globulin in the opposite arm. This lowers or eliminates the fever. Merck will distribute the gamma globulin with the vaccine...
...live" vaccine, which is over 95 per cent effective, might provide permanent immunity, although thus far vaccinated children have been observed only for a little over four years. In contrast, the "dead" vaccine, about 90 per cent effective, gives protection for only about one year, but eliminates the mild fever and rash produced by the live substance...