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During the month the National Science Foundation notified ORINS of approval of i t s proposal 'or a Traveling science Demonstration Lecture Program f o r fiscal year 1961. $296,300 will supp rt three training sessions during the year, beginning about t h e middle of June 1960. gram will provide for a minimum of six NSF-sqported teachers during *e Summer training period and a minhurri o f 35 state - o r local-agencysupported teachers during the fall and winter training periods. Grant. NSF-Gll204 inthe amount of I n cocperation with the AZC, this proORINS accepted an invitation from Governor Buford Ellington, chairman of the Regional Advisory Council on Nuclear Lnergy, t o sponsor with MCNE and southern industrial organizations a regional conference for industry-education cooperation i n upgrading science a d mathematics instruction in southern schools aithe precollege level. that this conference on technical ard scientific manpower will be held committee which met i n Atlanta on January 29-30. It is expected William G.Pollard, e::PUcutive director of OFJIJS, atterrled the annual meeting of the American Physical Society i n Mew York January On January 25 Dr. Vincent L . Parker, chairman o f the Southern Regional Accelerator Committee, conferred with Dr.Pollard concerning the meeting of the accelerator committee of the XIIS Council with the bcuthern kezional accelerator Committee on February 18 and 19. and Dr. Grigorieff discussed conferences and symposia for 1960. The Cancer Advisory Ccmmittee of t h e Atomic Znerzy Commission's Division of i3iolo;y and IIedicine met i n O d c Ridge on February 1 a d 2 t o review the cancer proqrar. of the Pkd-cal Division. Atits February 13 meeting, the OEI15 Eoard of Direc-Lors. h5ll formulate and approve the in i zi alb d get ee $ imt es for FY 1962 which it will present t o the B"uomic hers Comniseion :or consideration.
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the m dio logical hot ect ion service, Surres; ti% AEFZ Health Physics Division, liarwell; and the i.l&ical fhyzics Division, k ner al InfiMnaV, Lede. borne additional caicium-li7 has 'n+xome available am the preliminary microcuries ark two p - ti ents receimcl oral doses of 136 a d lOL microcuries. be rial blood, urine, and stool specimens will ue as syed ad daily line a - scans iill be taken t o study tne distribution within the the group Etuc'ied previously tribh 211 oral dose; thus,a comparison of the results between intra v emus am oral routes o f administration i n the sane patient will be obtained. One patient in the current group has known bone metastases from carcimma of the breast, and are; scans are being made over these areas t o study the concentration o f the isotope i n the region of the metastases. ?wo patienzz have received intravenous doses of 70 One of the patients who received the intravenous dose was i n Another patient with chronic lymphatic leukemia was treated with Three of the patients 5c r total-body irradiation, which makes a total of four patients in -the current study of the effects of this dose, had chronic lymphocytic leukemia and one patient ha.d lymphosarcoma. All the patients h ve shown definite or suggestive evidence of fallin the peripheral ~ ~ hit eblood cell count and in platelet count. I n the chronic lymphatic leukemia patients, one showed definite i3nprovemen-t i n subjective symptoms without definite ckange in size of lymph nodes o r spleen; one showed no change i n subjective symptoms a& progression in size of lTymph nodes; the third patient has m t been followed 10% enough since the irradiation to evaluate the effecz. The patient with lymphosarcoma had definite inprovemnt i n subjective symptoms and decrease in size of lymph nodes, as well as a decrease in cellular it y of the bone mrrow. Inthe continuing cli rica l research programs, studies have been o'stained on tne nmber of FatLents indicated i n the following categories: Keasurements of the distribution of cerium i n dogs have further substantiated that the half time for the retention of rare earths i n biological organisms i s extremely long, rep zd less of the carrier cerium administered . Using high-s?ecific-activ'cy cerium, the Nedical Division has observed essential lj no variations in the distribution pattern at6 hours, 1, 7, o r 30 days a f t e r injection; approxima-tely half of the cerium that was injected localized i n thc liver. On the other hand, the lmer - specific - activity cerium shows abut 2-1/2 times as much localization in