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...make the shrimp test," was the way General George C. Marshall's wife, Katherine, described one of her social duties. At parties she serves the Secretary of State as a sort of poison-taster, she explained. Anything with shrimp in it makes him pass out cold...
...could describe exactly how the swarming organisms kill sea life. Perhaps they actually poison the fish; perhaps they suffocate fish by blocking their gills. But there is no quick remedy. This week dead fish, but fewer of them, were still coming ashore. The only thing Florida chambers of commerce could do was hope that the next cold snap would clear the sea of yellow-green streaks...
...Japan, with its flimsy construction, was said to be No. i opportunity for fire, but I doubt if many died except from bomb contact or atom-bomb poison, because they could...
Cancer researchers have looked long for a specific poison secreted by cancer cells. If such a substance could be detected in a cancer patient's blood, early diagnosis should be easy. Roskin started by testing the effect of serum from cancerous mice on the sensitive paramecium, a single-celled protozoan.* The serum had no effect. But when it was inactivated by freezing, and then mixed in carefully measured proportions with healthy guinea-pig serum, the mixture developed a toxic factor which killed paramecia...
...inspectors were headed one morning for, say, Magnitogorsk, and Russia vetoed the trip, the action would indicate guilt almost as clearly as if a violation had been detected. The U.S. proposed that the Security Council be instructed to draw up treaties outlawing not only atomic weapons but guided missiles, poison gas and disease warfare. Any nation could exercise a veto by refusing to sign the treaty. Once the agreement was in force, however, the rules for enforcement and supervision would be binding. After two days of study (and possibly of communicating with Moscow), Mr. Molotov said...