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Pouring on the Gs. In the circling cab, the human guinea pig will be strapped in a seat mounted on gimbals, so that it can be locked in any position. The air he breathes can be pumped away to simulate altitudes up to 60,000 feet. As the Gs begin to multiply, a television tube will stare him in the face, flashing his tortured grimaces to a screen in the control room. Elaborate instruments will study his fluttering heart; an electroencephalograph will record his troubled brain waves. An X-ray motion picture camera will photograph the slithering of his internal...
...Mayo Clinic, Dr. H. C. Hinshaw, after finding that streptomycin stopped the growth of tubercle bacilli in guinea pigs, gave the drug to 24 hopeless human patients in advanced stages of pulmonary tuberculosis. Nineteen improved (though four relapsed after treatment stopped). Dr. Hmshaw's conclusion: though streptomycin arrests, it does not eradicate T.B will be valuable only as a supplement to other forms of treatment. Other findings-Tularemia (rabbit fever). A seven-day treatment with streptomycin (one gram a day) promptly cured 63 out of 67 cases...
Martin Graebner was a 41st Division chaplain in New Guinea and the Philippines. Now he is a University of Chicago graduate student (philosophy), living in a tiny prefabricated shack with his wife and baby. The Graebners have seen only one movie in the last six months. By skimping in this and a dozen other ways, solemn, 31-year-old Martin Graebner manages to scrape through on $140 a month. The G.I. Bill of Rights allows him $90. He makes up the difference by acting as campus Lutheran chaplain...
...stayed all night aboard the LSM with two assistants to set the controls so that Helen could be detonated by radio signals. At dawn Holloway's team (and three other men who had been overlooked aboard a target ship) were taken off. Bikini was deserted save for its guinea-pig ships with their white mice-and Helen...
...still the canoe was carried along by the winds and current. And then one day Nabetari was blown onto the shore of a strange island called Ninigo, about 140 miles north of New Guinea and 1,800 miles away from Banaba. It was then November, so Nabetari had been at sea in his canoe for seven months without seeing land. Perhaps nobody in the world has been at sea so long in a canoe before, or traveled...