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Boil It Down. Yet another change, in the method of manufacture, was recommended by Pediatrician Joseph Stokes Jr. He was worried about the random sampling in huge lots of vaccine. Philadelphia's Children's Hospital has a method, he said, of reducing seven or eight gallons of virus solution down to half a teaspoonful or less-99% pure virus. This can be inactivated and tested far more readily. So why not concentrate the stuff? He got no immediate answer, but P.H.S. and Dr. Salk are studying...
...COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, by Warren Eyster (597 pp.; Random House; $4.95), is the slowest-starting melodrama since John Hersey covered umpteen pages before breaching The Wall. To fill his big picture of violence in a strike-torn Pennsylvania steel town, Novelist Warren Eyster starts 50 years back and paints all the ancestors as carefully as the main figures who finally dominate the canvas. Never relenting for so much as a chuckle, Novelist Eyster fastens his eye on personal as well as social change ("Irene had become a better person. She appeared to have learned that sacrifice was not necessarily...
...decisive majority of those polled affirmed the necessity of religion as a factor in life. In response to the question, "Do you feel that you require some form of religious orientation or belief in order to achieve a fully mature philosophy of life?" 90 out of 147 chosen at random replied yes, and only 34 said...
HEROIC HEART-THE DIARY & LETTERS OF KIM MALTHE-BRUUN (177 pp.)-Random House...
...House selection, those questioned showed that their most cogent reasons for applying to a particular House were friends going to the House, the House reputation, and the House tutorial staff. In response to whether or not freshmen in groups of up to eight ought to be distributed at random among the Houses, the response...