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...November, a lot of members will be more cautious this session, particularly since there is no national consensus on many key issues. Experts forecast only a moderately productive session, with a number of important matters?among them, national health insurance and reform of the tax and welfare systems???postponed in a rush to adjourn by Oct. 1 so that legislators can concentrate on campaigning. Says House Republican Leader John Rhodes of Arizona: "Nobody wants to get into those morasses this year. If we don't adjourn, we'll just stay around in Washington and do a lot of dumb things...
...agammaglobulinemia, a disease caused by a deficiency or lack of the major antibodies. He?together with others in his laboratories?conducted a series of experiments in which he removed the thymus from newborn rabbits. The results of the test?all of the animals failed to develop normal immune systems???led to recognition of the thymus' role in the development of immunity...
...Aldrin and Armstrong five apiece. During Apollo's eleventh revolution of the moon, Aldrin and Armstrong donned their space suits and crawled through a tunnel for a final checkout of the lunar module before its long separation from the command module. They paid particular attention to Eagle's propulsion systems???the tanks containing the hypergolic fuels that fire the descent and ascent engines, and the pressure gauges on the helium that forces the fuels into the combustion chambers, where they burn upon contact with one another. Efficient and businesslike, they completed the check 30 minutes ahead of schedule. Two minutes...
...Exiled. New England offered the stiffest problem for this Eastern merger. The I. C. C. cut the knot by excluding New England from present plans. Originally New England was to have two consolidated systems???New Haven and Boston & Maine. Pennsylvania threatened this program when it began buying into the two New England roads. Last week the I. C. C. reported that it controlled 22% of New Haven and, with New Haven, 45% of B. & M. Such penetration by Pennsylvania alarmed the five New England governors who loudly resisted its "monopolistic invasion...
Merrill, Lynch & Co. have been foremost in financing seven large chain store systems???S. S. Kresge & Co., the McCrory Stores Company, the Acme Tea Company, Jones Brothers Tea Company, J. C. Penney Company, G. R. Kinney & Company, the Melville Shoe Company. These companies operate about 2,000 stores, whose total sales in 1922 exceeded...