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...John Buddingh of Louisiana State University reported a quicker test for TB. Sputum or spinal fluid from a suspected case is injected into a fertilized egg. Microscopic study within four to six days will show whether tubercle bacilli are present. The current method with cultures or guinea pigs takes four to six weeks. ¶ Polio struck early at Prairie Village, Kans. (pop. 9,500), and, with eight cases reported, the Office of Defense Mobilization allocated 1,000 cc of scarce gamma globulin. Not all exposed children got the shots; injections were given instead to every third or fourth youngster...
...this year, these students would have been certain of House residence, but they were chosen as guinea pigs for a new and needed experiment. The Housemasters had decided to give each House a section of floor of its own in Claverly, and to fill the building with a cross section, instead of the least-desired part, of the sophomore class...
...most effortless ways of earning money which the Bureau frequently offers is psychological testing. Budding psychologists and social relations centers request students to serve as "guinea pigs" for new IQ Tests...
With the easy authority of a man who has lived his subject, Author Eyster steers the Dreher's crew through training and up the long ladder of South Pacific victory, from New Ireland to New Guinea, from the Solomons to the Carolines, from the Marianas to the Philippines. Between actions, in endless and high-flown bull sessions, he tries to solve the riddle of human personality as it clashes and cleaves in wartime. He does better when he gets away from the Dreher and its talky crew. He has watched the sea closely and when he keeps a bridle...
...Stevenson accepted Eisenhower's offer of full official assistance for the forthcoming Stevenson world trip by getting a morning's briefing at the State Department. Then, in a two-hour meeting, the man who won the presidency and the man who lost it sat down to lunch (guinea hen, wild rice), swapped reminiscences of the campaign, chatted as warmly as old friends. Stevenson was impressed by the hospitality: he was beginning to like Washington, "perhaps too much," he confessed...