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Sikorsky is a stargazer (five-inch-telescope class) and a writer of religious and philosophical books (The Message of the Lord's Prayer, The Invisible Encounter). Tractors of any type fascinate him and he currently has three ("they are like pets"). But one hobby takes him far from home. He is wild about volcanoes and will fly thousands of miles to watch one fume and throw lava into the air. When Mexico's famed Paricutin was erupting, Sikorsky traveled twice to the craterside to admire the effect...
...virus of poliomyelitis, they had never seen the critter. Now, two teams of investigators working independently have isolated the virus, looked at it long and hard under the electron microscope, photographed it and measured it. It turns out to be a spherical particle almost exactly a millionth of an inch in diameter. Magnified tens of thousands of times against a plastic screen, the virus particles look like tennis balls on an asphalt court...
...Bachrach and Carleton E. Schwerdt, did it the hard way.'They grew polio virus of the Type II or Lansing strain in the nerve tissues of rats, and got the concentration up to about 10%. This preparation contained particles of two sizes, some a millionth of an inch in diameter, the others less than half as big. The researchers separated the two kinds in an ultracentrifuge. then they injected the materials into different groups of rats. Only the animals that received the millionth-of-an-inch particles caught polio. That, and similar tests, clinched the identification...
Finished last June, the painting was the core of an exhibition at Manhattan's Alan Gallery last week. Levine had crammed it with hatpin-sharp caricatures, all bathed in a rich and suitably waxen light. His nervous, flickering brushwork brought every inch of the canvas to life, and created an illusion of space filled not only with figures but with air, odors and heavy thoughts. Levine's message to his fellow man was no longer propagandistic, but moral. Gangster Funeral may, like Hogarth's Gin Lane and Lautrec's Elles, live far beyond the age that...
Left end will be Bob Kovalchick, 6-foot 1-inch sophomore who is primarily a defensive player. Neither he, nor Pete Bartuska, number one end replacement have been dependable receivers for Kohut's passing...