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...Dutch, though now armed, could not defend New Guinea or Celebes; the Japanese might also take some smaller island such as Bali with its classically breasted maidens. But the three key islands, Borneo, Sumatra and Java, were tough porcupines to grab. Granted Japan's estimated 2,000,000 tons of available shipping could transport between 100,000 and 200,000 men, with their equipment, across 2.800 miles of the China Sea, a landing on Borneo might be successful. But the oil wells of Borneo were prepared for instant destruction, and the Dutch have sworn to destroy them if need...
...Henry Ford Hospital Dr. Frank Wilbur Hartman and colleagues dissolved pectin in warm double-distilled water, filtered it through fine papers till it had the same thickness as blood serum. After injecting this liquid pectin into a number of guinea pigs, rabbits and dogs with no ill effects, they transfused it into the veins of eight patients. Results: "the bleeding time, coagulation time . . . were not altered. . . . Satisfactory blood pressure levels were maintained throughout. . . . Pectin is retained in the body a short time and then eliminated...
...High-pressure hog Bernie Kamber now spread his unwanted presence across the supper table, and kept looking up between mouthfulls for any 'stunt' which might publicise his beautiful guinea pig," and observer said. His chance came when CRIMSON editors appeared between say, Ritz diners bearing a moulting canary bird, incarnate soul of the sacred lbis. Many eye witnesses claim that at this point, Kamber seized the helpless bird, wrung its neck, put it on a large china plate and made Marjorie eat it as Boston photographers clicked their flash bulbs madly...
...their studies in sex, Drs. Brookhart & Dey went to the guinea pig. They short-circuited the hypothalamus in nine animals, produced indifference to females in seven. (The other two, who managed to sire four litters, were not as severely injured as their companions.) The sex glands of all the animals remained in healthy condition. Loss of interest in sex, concluded the scientists, was due to a change in the guinea pigs' "mental outlook...
...preliminary plans for the new school were announced last June, and have been developed since then. A number of appointments have been made to the faculty, and all is in readiness for the 15 "guinea pigs" to begin their work in the fall. These men, when they graduate in five years, will be awarded two degrees, a D.D.M...