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...daily press reports have indicated that radioactive strontium 90 from the fallout of thermonuclear explosions is nothing to worry about. Japanese scientists do not agree. On April 8 scientists working under Japan's Atomic Energy Commission will present a report to the United Nations Radiation Committee. Its gist: strontium 90 should be studied carefully, and much more must be known about it before it can be written off as harmless to the human species...
...first hand what the Protestant missionary enterprise is really like. In the current Christian Century, Presbyterian Gill concludes an eight-part report on the countries of Southeast Asia-the area chosen by the National Council of Churches' Board of Foreign Missions for special study during 1957. Gist of his report...
...Spoofing Princeton's miasmic weather of yore, Yale's Griswold asserted that four Princeton presidents had expired within five years back in the 1700s. Then he quoted from a letter, hopefully quilled by Princeton's trustees to a presidential prospect in 1766. The missive's gist: Don't let our weather scare you; those other four men were all sick when they took the job. Princeton's Dodds, however, recalled the short careers of those predecessors of his, claimed that three of the four deceased were Yalemen, presumably in ill health from their undergraduate...
...Scrutinized, as it prepared to take part in still another round of U.N. disarmament talks, a new version of the Soviet proposal -turned down by President Eisenhower last month-for a summit meeting to discuss arms reduction. Gist of the new proposal: foreign ministers and top-ranking military chiefs should attend the U.N. Disarmament Subcommittee when it reconvenes in London next month. Initial Washington reaction was cool. Reasons: the Russian proposal, coming two days after Moscow announced a cut in defense spending, seemed designed to 1) dramatize recent Soviet calls for uninspected arms reductions and 2) act as an entering...
...done for their victims. Last week Cornell University's Dr. Irving S. Wright reported the hopeful findings of a just-concluded conference at Princeton (paid for by the National Heart Institute, sponsored by the American Heart Association) of 50 assorted specialists-neurologists, neuro surgeons, physiologists, pathologists, hematologists, internists. Gist of their conclusions: much more can be done to determine the exact nature of a stroke, and anticoagulant drugs show promise as a means of warding off recurrences...