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...blood by ten factors (most transfusion matching covers only two), had even picked men of the same eye and hair color and body build. Beyond that, he could only guess. Perhaps it was because his patients had been healthy before the accident, then had suddenly received such a whopping jolt of radiation that it could not fail to knock out their marrow function-including antibody formation. Frozen marrow keeps for at least six months; if it can be kept longer, general bone-marrow banks may become practical. In any case, Dr. Jammet suggested, people working around reactors might have some...
NATO is ten years old this week-and the occasion would normally be observed by congratulations on having kept the peace for a decade, mixed with strictures about the need for more strength. Instead, as has happened before, the Russians have given the Atlantic Alliance a jolt which shows that, below the surface, some basic disagreements exist...
What gave committee members the roughest jolt was Slichter's suggestion that the U.S. gradually abolish all tariffs and import quotas over the next ten years. Getting rid of protective tariffs, he said, would expose U.S. businesses to brisker competition, force them to become more efficient, more imaginative, more resistant to excessive wage demands. "No single step that the Government could take," said he, "would make such an important contribution toward strengthening the American economy...
Kennedy got his sharpest jolt fortnight ago when Brooklyn police solved the rape-murder of a 60-year-old grandmother. Grimly they announced that one of her two attackers was Patrolman Francis J. Rogers, 26, three years a policeman, whose father and brother are also on the force...
...into uncharted territory last week. As trading on the New York Stock Exchange boiled up between 3,900,000 and 4,800,000 shares daily, Dow-Jones industrials hit a peak of 611.87, or 175 points above the 436.89 low of a year ago. Not even tough news could jolt it. The index gave up only 2.35 points on the Federal Reserve Board's discount-rate hike (see above), closed...