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...victory in the battle against grippe-like diseases was reported by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. New recruits tossed into melting-pot basic training centers are especially subject to infections caused by adenoviruses* (one man in ten has to be hospitalized). A new vaccine developed at Walter Reed and tested at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. cut down the attack rate of all upper-respiratory infections by 57%, and of those specifically attributed to adenoviruses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Progress Reports | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...patch of land he can trade for a passage to Canada. He has one nubile daughter named Michela, another one named Sira, who is a mute. On St. Francis' night, when the egg white and the cardoon are on the window sills, a village woman empties a chamber pot on two peasants. This has the odd effect of stirring their passions, and they waylay Michela with rape in mind. The rape is not accomplished, but Michela becomes as mutely mad as her sister; what is more she is really in love with one of the peasants and he with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not for Tourists | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...that they had approved for the show. Barry and Co-Producer Dan Enright put heads together, agreed that both contestants had missed, and called for a rematch-again at $3,500 a point-next week (Mon. 9 p.m. E.D.T.). Although Bloomgarden must relinquish claim on last week's pot, he gets a guarantee from the sponsor (Geritol) that even if he loses to Snodgrass, he can have the $52,500 he had already won. "Completely fair," said Bloomgarden, and stiffened his axial skeleton, from cervical to coccygeal vertebrae, for a return to battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Battle of the Bones | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...point, referring to Chief Parker, Interviewer Wallace said: "Well, Mickey, you're a reformed thief just as he's a reformed thief. Isn't it the pot calling the kettle black?" But at the end of the interview, after wishing him long life and happiness, Mike announced solemnly that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Important Story | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...roll without the 27½% depletion allowance now given to liquid-crude oilmen. At present, shalemen are classified as mineral miners, get only a 15% tax break on the raw shale. Nevertheless, Rubel foresees a bright Union future in shale. Says he "We have about $15 million in the pot, and that's only the ante. We're betting $15 million that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Trillion-Barrel Field | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

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