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Physicians Announce Common Cold Find
CHICAGO — (UFI) — An intestinal virus has been found to cause the common cold, a group of doctors said today.
The virus, Coxsackie A-21, they said, is one of a group of "hardy agents of small size," which commonly inhabit man's intestinal tract.
THE VIRUS WAS RECOVERED from the throats of cold sufferers among Marine personnel at Camp Lejeune, N. C. Prior to the discovery, group A Coxsackie viruses had been associated with mild fevers and neurological diseases.
The importance of the Coxsackie A-21 virus in producing cold symptoms and the possible role of other intestinal viruses in causing colds
The discovery was reported by Drs. Karl J. Johnson, Maurice A. Mufson and Robert M. Chanock, all of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., and Lt. Cmdr. Henry H. Bloom (USN), Camp Lejeune, in the current journal of the American Medical Association.
The KU Endowment Association has pledged $100,000 worth of support to KU's program of international education, it was announced yesterday.
KU Receives $100,000
The money will come largely from private donations and from income provided by Endowment Association investments and land holdings.
IN ANNOUNCING THE PLEDGE, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said the money will be used to further the University's present international programs and to aid in developing new programs.
The pledge, he said, "is an estimate of the commitment of the University to its leading role in international education affairs and is another example of how private support of the University allows it to do those things not otherwise possible."
Present KU internationally oriented programs include:
- The KU-University of Costa Rica faculty and student exchange program, which is now entering its third year. Under the program, KU faculty members exchange places with their counterparts at the University of Costa Rica for three summer months and selected KU junior years students study at the Costa Rican university for one year.
- Three centers on the campus for the study of Slavic and Soviet, East Asian and Latin American areas.
- An exchange program between the schools of medicine of KU and the Philippines University.
- A Summer Language Institute under which more than 100 KU students will fly to Europe for two months next summer to study language in France, Spain, or Germany.
- The People-to-People program which has helped KU's 301 foreign students to adjust to their new environment.
- Of the $100,000 contributed by the Endowment Association, $40,000 still remains to be contributed during the coming year.
remain to be determined, they said.
But if Coxsackie A-21 is found to contribute substantially to the incidence of colds, they said, there are indications that a preventive vaccine would prove effective.
The report said there were indications the virus was spread primarily through the respiratory tract.
BUT THE AUTHORS noted that not all of the respiratory illness which occurred during the study period could be associated with the Coxsackie virus. It was impossible, they said, to link any pattern of physical complaints with the presence of the virus.
In an accompanying editorial, the AMA Journal said that although large obstacles might be encountered in any attempt to prevent respiratory illness by vaccination, the Coxsackie A-21 findings indicate that "important new information" about the nature of cold in adults will be forthcoming.
It is "not unlikely," the editorial added, that intestinal viruses may prove to be the cause of a certain percentage of colds.
"Antigone," by Jean Anouilh, will be presented February 12-20 in the University of Kansas Experimental Theatre.
'Antigone' to Play Here in February
"Antigone" is a modern adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy of the same name. The play will be directed by Eleanor Susan Dillman, Independence graduate student. Assistant director will be Sylvia Schwarz, Solomon junior.
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Sara B. Maxwell, Columbus senior, will play Antigone. Other cast members are: The Nurse; Kav Carroll. El Dorado junior, Patti O'Berg, Leawood junior, John C. Welz, Webster Groves, Mo., senior, and John H. Magill Jr., Merriam sophomore, Stephen Callahan, Independence graduate student.
Others are Terry Kovac, Wichita sophomore, Kenneth Baker, Hellmetta, N. J., graduate student, Carl A. Bentz, Peabody junior, Richard Friesen, Prairie Village freshman, and Francis Cullinan, Springfield, Mass., graduate student.
NEW YORK — (UPI) The Diaper Service Information Bureau reports there are eight babies born every minute in the United States — one about every seven seconds. Last year's total: 4,068,000.
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Special Chemistry Colloquium: 4 p.m.
233 Malott, Dr. Donald Dittmer, Central Research Dept., DuPont, Wilmington, Del.
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship:
7:30 p.m. Cottonwood Room, Kansas Uni-
tory School of Law Church of the Nazarene, Lawrence, speaking on "The Bible: Truth or Fiction?"
Hillel Services: 7:30 p.m. Jewish Community, 917 Highland Dr.
Baptist Student Union: 7.30 p.m. Baptist Student Activities Building, 1221 Johnson Street studies and fellowship Episcopal Evening Prayer: 9.30 p.m Danforth Chapel.
SUNDAY
Lutheran Church Services: 8:30 & 11 a.m., Immanuel Lutheran Church, 17th & Vermont. 5 p.m. Wednesdays, Danforth Chapel.
Catholic Mass: 9. 11 a.m., Fraser Hall (Newman Club).
Oread Friends Worship Meeting: 10:30 a.m. Danforth Chapel.
MONDAY
Episcopal Holy Communion & Lunch:
12. poon, Centbury House.
Shafiq Hashmi, International Club president, announced that the club will not meet this Friday evening because of finals.
Episcopal Evening Prayer: 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
No International Club Toniacht
Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried. —Shakespeare
Medical School Given $2 Million
The University of Kansas School of Medicine will use a recent $2 million grant to supplement studies of various human ills with bedside clinical research.
The grant enables full costs of patient care to be added to previous programs which laboratory, animal and investigators' basic research did not include.
THE AIM OF bedside research is to link effects of modern drug, chemical, and other medical advances on human physiology to actual patients. This will be done through studies of the composition of fluid, tissue, muscle and bone compositions of the body.
The grant of $2,215,110 is from the National Institutes of Health, which two years ago began subsidizing a clinical program that now includes 40 of the nation's 85 medical schools as cooperators.
C. Arden Miller, dean of the Medical School said the grant is significant to this area in that it adds impetus to transmitting and applying new medical knowledge faster.
Dr. Robert E. Bolinger will direct the project and Dr. Paul R. Schloerb, surgeon, will assist as associate project director.
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Automatic cars with button and lever controls may seem far out right now. But Ford Motor Company scientists and engineers are busy prying out and buttoning down some fantastic computer-controlled guidance systems for future Ford-built cars.
Among the controls now under study at Ford is a radar system that warns a driver when he gets too close to the vehicle ahead. Another is a short-range radio frequency device that extends the limits of drivers' senses by giving advance information on road surface and weather conditions, evaluating and appraising obstacles in the driving path ahead. When developed, control systems like these will enable drivers to enjoy safer, faster driving without fatigue.