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...amounts of radioactivity that people carry in their bodies from natural causes-e.g., from cosmic rays-is "very much larger" than those derived from H-bomb fallout, replied Dr. Willard Libby, top nuclear chemist and lone scientist member of the Atomic Energy Commission, last week. Furthermore, the amount of radiation produced in humans by the fallout is "less than 1% of the maximum permissible concentration" and there is general agreement that it would take "larger concentrations, perhaps tenfold greater," to produce harmful results. Libby provided a striking example: the present dosage of strontium 90 in the bones of children...
...reappoint Thomas E. Murray to the Atomic Energy Commission when Murray's term expires June 30. To Washingtonians the President's decision will come as no surprise since Manhattan Millionaire Murray, the remaining Democratic member of the five-man AEC (down to four since the death of Scientist John von Neumann), has long been at loggerheads with AEC Chairman Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss...
...Carolyn Conn, 30, faced Judge Harry G. Hershenson in Chicago because her ex-husband complained that she would not allow Salk vaccination of their daughter Alyson, 7. Mrs. Conn protested that it was dangerous and against her religious beliefs as a Christian Scientist. Said the judge: "I fail to see where a religious issue is involved." He set a precedent by ordering Alyson to be taken to a doctor and vaccinated...
...frontiers, in many cases along the lines sketched out by the great men of its early days. Endocrinologist George W. Thorn and colleagues are still exploring the adrenals, gradually outlining the role of a recently discovered and potent but little-understood hormone, aldosterone. Dr. Harken is working with famed Scientist Vannevar Bush on plastic valves which may actually replace the aortic valve in patients with some kinds of heart damage...
Oppenheimer pointed out that quantum theory leads the scientist to the maximum possible determination of a given effect, but not the only determination. He emphasized that once a scientist had decided on what route he would take to this "maximum determination," other routes were necessarily excluded in that particular experiment...