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...Gold shows some tendency to concentrate in cancerous lymph nodes, but the metal stays in the body indefinitely after it has lost its radioactivity. Silver concentrates faster, and the body gets rid of most of it. However, radioactive silver is hard to make in a pile and therefore is hard to get. So in Nashville, Biochemist Paul F. Hahn is trying to fool the body by silver-plating his radio-gold...
...there is no such thing as a Vatican specialist on labor matters. Perhaps, said the Vatican spokesman charitably, Pegler talked to some priest or monsignor, who either personally shared his views or was just trying to be polite and asked Pegler for a report on labor to get rid...
...thought the deal was all settled (TIME, Jan. 14). But he reckoned without American Power's directors. A majority of them protested the sale after stockholders opposed it before the SEC. The directors took the position that the Washington Water Power stock, which American Power must get rid of under the Public Utilities Holding Company Act, should not be sold to the P.U.D.s, but distributed to American Power's stockholders. Aller was reportedly told by American Power officials that they intended to distribute the stock, "if we have to remove...
...upset the balance, and the result has been an onerous situation where Cambridge can neither get rid of him, nor bring him into line. The CCA itself has split over the question, one faction insisting on Atkinson's immediate reelection, the other on his dismissal. Actually, the anti-Atkinson group is merely trying to threaten the city manager as a means of forcing him to submit to the Council's authority. But because the Council cannot agree on a candidate to replace Atkinson, the threat is a watery one indeed. So Atkinson continues on his way with little fear...
...present, the majority of Councillors do not wish to get rid of Atkinson entirely. He is a good administrator, and they realize it. And if Atkinson were fired the Council would have to find a competent successor, a difficult task at best...