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P:A child patient at Little Rock's University of Arkansas hospital made medical history by giving natural birth, two months prematurely, to a 2 1/2lb. boy. Prognosis of the hospital's obstetrics-gynecology chief. Dr. Willis E. Brown: a reasonable chance of survival for the baby. The mother's age: nine years. Youngest birth on record anywhere: a boy born to a five-year-old in Peru, 1939.

P:To extract tobacco tar from cigarettes for their cancer-tracking experiments on mice, doctors use strange contraptions that smoke cigarettes incessantly. Latest and biggest such smoking robot was installed last week in Buffalo's Roswell Park Memorial Institute. Puffing 600 cigarettes every ten minutes--100 cartons a day--the machine's rotating drum takes ten drags, ejects the butts and begins smoking new ones blown into place by compressed air. The smoke inhaled by the machine is broken down in refrigerated condensers to produce the tar.

P:There is strong evidence that a link may exist between leukemia and Mongolism. two Minneapolis researchers report. Drs. William Krivit and Robert A. Good of the University of Minnesota found that in four years (1952-55) the two conditions occurred together at least 34 times in children four years old and younger, far oftener than the number (12.3) expected from chance alone. Likelihood that the cases occurred by chance in a four-year span, say the statisticians. is less than one in a thousand. If existence of a link between the two presumably incurable conditions is proved, important clues to their causes and treatment may be found.

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