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...medical and scientific community of the day, this was utter nonsense. If true, it meant that cancer (at least in fowls) was an infectious disease, and everyone "knew" it was not. More likely, his critics scoffed, Rous had inadvertently let some cancer cells slip through his filters. With infinite patience and persistent good humor, Dr. Rous extended his work to other kinds of tumors in different species of fowl. A quarter-century later, the late Dr. Richard E. Shope followed his lead and produced virus-induced tumors in rabbits. By now, half a dozen mammalian species carry viral cancers...
Strong as ever in the precision quality of their work but slow to innovate, the fine old German camera-making companies have seen their share of the world market slip from 55% eleven years ago to 25% last year. Last week, as shutterbugs swarmed through Cologne's ninth "Photokina," the biggest camera exhibit in the world, the Germans made a big bid to show that they are thinking most positively about negatives...
This is a real problem. Munro has directed his players to slow the game down and have all ten men moving forward together. When play reaches the penalty zone, the halfback or inside should slip a pass between the backs toward the goal and, hopefully, the wings and insides will crash through and get off a shot...
Technically, the new law demands that for every book a student wants to have exempted, he must go to an individual professor and have an individual exemption slip signed. This procedure is so absurd and so time-consuming that it could have had only one result. No one would have used...
...check any sudden spurt in defection, Peking sent army units to the borders above Hong Kong and Macao, but a lot of Chinese still managed to slip through. With them came unconfirmed reports that Mao Tse-tung was suffering from throat cancer and that the Red Guard-led purge was the last gasp of a dying dictator. To be sure, Mao has not spoken publicly during his last few outings, allowing Defense Minister Lin Piao (TIME, Sept. 9) to be his mouthpiece. Last week Lin was placed directly in command of the Red Guards-a position heretofore held...