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With a dentist's drill, he cut out a piece of the shell, inoculated the thin membrane inside with infectious material, sat back to study the results through a tiny "window" of melted paraffin and cover glass. The fowlpox virus throve. Subsequent tests with smallpox vaccine showed that one egg would produce enough to protect 1,000 children for life. Word of the new technique spread throughout the scientific world...
...beaten country of his onetime conquerors. Only the day before, another king had sailed out of the same harbor, bound for voluntary exile in Egypt.* The world could read the disgrace of the House of Savoy in the titles that the abdicated Italian king had just shed from his thin, aging shoulders - Vittorio Emanuele (Ferdinand Maria Gennaro) III, King of Italy and Sardinia (1900-46) and Albania (1939-43); Emperor of Ethiopia (May 1939 November 1943); also King of Cyprus, of Jerusalem, of Armenia-ancient honors meaningless these many centuries...
...using food as an instrument of policy. Peru, dependent on Argentina for its meat, got some 40 tons last month, and Lima shoppers spent hours hacienda cola (sweating out the line) outside butcher shops. Last week, as a result of Argentine manipulations, the wheat stocks were down to a thin ten days' supply when the U.S. freighter Bert Williams brought in a timely 7,900 tons. Perón was after Peruvian oil, rubber, cotton-and an Argentina-oriented Peru...
...seemed to be suspended by an invisible chain. It picked up speed, roared higher & higher, trailing a 60-ft. plume of brilliant flame. Up, up it climbed, its roar diminishing with distance, its glare contracting until it looked like a bright orange star. Then it vanished, leaving a thin trail of smoke behind...
Last week Composer Menotti had a premiere to his liking. His latest music-drama, The Medium, was produced under his own direction by Columbia University. On a set by Ballet Designer Oliver Smith, The Medium unfolded a grisly plot thick in horror and thin in music...