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Capsule or Teaspoon. The Sabin vaccine, which, like the Salk, is grown in monkey kidney cells, has been tested on a small scale in the U.S. but used wholesale in the U.S.S.R., where almost 80 million people have now taken it in various forms and on different dosage schedules. Full protection against all three types of polio requires three virus strains, one of each type. Dr. Sabin has tried giving them separately at short intervals, as well as in a three-in-one dose. Best results to date have been with the spaced, single-type doses, and it is expected...
...recent Communist Party meeting in Peking, an ambitious delegate who began to recite the once-obligatory eulogies to "the great agricultural leap" was harshly reminded by one of his colleagues that, after all, China's Communists were "not like the legendary monkey god, Sun Wun Kung, who could pull out one of his hairs and with a breath create an army." More bluntly yet, the Peking People's Daily unprecedentedly admitted the possibility of famine "in certain areas of the country." In face of the hunger that stalks mainland China for the third straight year, even Red China...
...lunatic vision, the Weimar Republic becomes a memorable cartoon-rather as if George Grosz had been a Disney animator. On a diet of zwieback, Lasik sits in a druggist's window advertising the shocking effects of not drinking cod liver oil; later he understudies for a circus monkey. Small wonder that when he wants to invoke God he swears "in the name of all that is being ridiculed...
...Monkey Tricks. Other research under study at Bethesda raises the problem of ensuring the safety of any live-virus material grown in tissue cultures of monkeys' kidney cells. The kidneys of the monkey species used in vaccine manufacture are loaded with native viruses. The worst of these is Herpesvirus simiae, or "B virus," close kin to man's benign cold-sore virus. It apparently gives the monkey nothing worse than fever blisters; in man it is almost invariably fatal. In Salk vaccine these B virus particles were killed by formaldehyde, but in making an oral vaccine of live...
Akira Iwai, 38, secretary-general of Sohyo, a federation of 22 left-wing labor unions with a membership of 3,500,000. On finishing junior high school, handsome, hard-driving Iwai worked as a grease monkey on the Japanese National Railways. After the war. he first won the leadership of a youth section of the union, then became a hard-boiled strategist in a series of railway strikes. Nine of the 22 Sohyo unions -including the railroaders-are run by "secret" Communists, and they supply much of the marching manpower in the blocks-long demonstrations. Iwai's boys also...