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...Lederle vaccine has been tried on 148 families in a University of Minnesota housing project, but because highly detailed studies are continuing on the 542 subjects (285 adults, 257 children), only preliminary reports have been made. The gist: children show a full antibody response, as expected; in adults the antibody rise is less marked, may be complicated by earlier infections. Proponents of live-virus vaccines are confident that eventually their one-drop capsules or laced syrups will virtually displace the needle and killed-virus preparations even...
...White House was, in fact, beginning to think about the contingency that he might find himself unfit. Gist of the thinking: Dulles would continue as the President's top adviser on foreign policy, and the President would choose a new Secretary from among Dulles' top lieutenants in the department: Acting Secretary Christian Herter, Deputy Under Secretary for Economic Affairs Douglas Dillon, or Deputy Under Secretary for Political Affairs Robert Murphy...
...they knew better. Their only hope for trimming down the second most powerful Congressman was to enlist the sympathy of Mr. Sam himself. Meekly, they wrote to him at his home in Bonham, Texas to petition for an interview. Carefully, they grapevined the gist of their case: they wanted nothing, really, except to increase the Speaker's own control over Smith's difficult committee. Perhaps, they hinted, Mr. Sam would add an extra liberal Democrat to the Rules Committee (eight Democrats, four Republicans), thus weaken Smith's coalition of conservative Republicans and Southern Democrats...
...most important cold-war textbook lesson of the year is a step-by-step analysis of last autumn's Quemoy crisis prepared by U.S. military and diplomatic agencies in recent weeks. Its gist...
...Gist of the report, which studied the careers of 1,390 Harvard students who went on to medical school from 1949-56: grades and academic honors weigh heavily in determining admission to medical school, but a student's choice of major-assuming he has met minimum science requirements-has no bearing. Writes Author Dean K. Whitla, director of Harvard's office of tests: "It would be regrettable if some of our students who plan to become doctors felt that they must turn away from their interest in the liberal arts for fear of being rejected at medical school...