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With tissue culture (1949) the picture changed. Last week Enders spelled out the many immensely detailed steps that began with growing the virus (from patients' throats or blood) in human kidney cells. Along the way it was found that the virus caused sharply defined changes in the growth pattern of the cells on which it battened. This led to a valuable and simple test for showing the presence of live virus and also measuring immunity. For the live test in monkeys, Dr. Enders found, he had to get the animals by air. hot from the Philippine jungle, to make...
...week, made changes in a foreign-aid speech to be delivered this week. A few times, Personal Secretary Ann Whitman dropped by to take a little dictation. Perhaps twice a day the President talked by telephone to the White House staff. As for the rest, the days fell into pattern: lunch, a nap, bridge (with Humphrey; veteran golfing companion Bill Robinson, Coca-Cola president; and Ellis Slater, retired president of Frankfort Distillers), supper, bridge and bed by about...
...supply it, Judaism would need both missionaries and missions, and Gordis is well aware of what they would be up against. For one thing, potential converts would have to acquire not only a new set of beliefs but "a new pattern of practice that requires a complete transformation of one's way of life." In addition, "it should be remembered that no Christian sect has ever formally surrendered the goal of converting the Jews to Christianity. There is a grave question as to how these churches would react if Jews were to begin to convert Christians to Judaism...
...human upheavals vast enough to change the physical look of a large part of the earth's surface was the collectivizing of Soviet agriculture. One hundred and eight million Russian peasants were forcibly torn from the traditional checkerboard of their individual farms and resettled in a new pattern of huddled hamlets dotting the forest-wall-to-forest-wall carpeting of huge collectively tilled fields. This battle for collectivization, Stalin told Churchill, was harder to win than the war against Hitler, and he killed or starved to death an estimated 6,000,000 Russians in winning it. In that battle...
...such restrictions on private oil companies that Gulf, the last U.S. firm wildcatting on the peninsula, got out (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957). Five months ago he got a concession in Iran in return for a promise to turn over 75% of oil profits, thus overturning the fifty-fifty pattern now in effect in the Middle East...