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From Cape Town to Oslo, the National Institutes of Health are spending $15 million a year on a whole series of overseas studies. "We're not in the foreign aid business," explains Dr. Martin M. Cummings. who heads the Institutes' Office of International Research. "We're spending money where we can get a concentration of excellence in skills, talents and resources." In most cases, a U.S. grant helps a foreign institution to do better work and improve local health standards. But by mandate of Congress, such considerations are secondary: the primary aim of financing foreign medical research...
...Osaka University Dr. Hideo Kikkawa has painstakingly bred 30 different mutant strains of houseflies to find out how some of them become resistant to insecticides. By a statistical quirk, Norway turns out to be the best place to compare the effects of different psychiatric treatments, including tranquilizers. The Oslo government has been keeping a register of mental illness cases since 1916, and its records are the world's best for a homogeneous, stable population. Among U.S. immigrants, and their descendants, from Mediterranean countries, a mysterious, periodic fever, easily mistaken for hepatitis or mononucleosis. is not uncommon. PHS has allotted...
Johan T. Ruud, professor of Marine Biology and president of the University of Oslo, Norway, will lecture tonight on "Antarctic Whaling: Studies in Biology and Population Dynamics." He will speak at the 2 Divinity Ave. auditorium...
Died. Kirsten Flagstad, 67, Norway's renowned Wagnerian opera soprano; after a long illness; in Oslo (see Music...
From her debut at Oslo's National Theater in 1913 to her farewell on the same stage 40 years to the day later, she was unquestionably the diva of the century. Her voice was at first sweet and small, but by 1935, when she made her debut at the Met as Sieglinde in Die Walküre, it had grown into immense power and clarity, perfectly even throughout its great range. She had grown with it, and when, as Isolde, she embraced Lauritz Melchior's Tristan, 400 pounds of lovebird sang from the stage. But together they were...