Capsules

P:The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of law-enforcement authorities to use as evidence a blood sample taken from an unconscious defendant. The appeal arose from the case of a trucker who was convicted of drunken driving on testimony that a blood sample taken from him after an accident tested .17% alcohol. The court decided that the defendant's rights had not been violated so long as the blood sample was removed "under the protective eye of a physician."

P:For a study of radioactivity in foods, the Food and Drug Administration hit upon a rare source of canned foods unquestionably packed before the advent of the atomic era: supplies cached in the Antarctic by the Shackleton expedition (1908-09) and the Scott expedition (1910-13). While waiting for the arrival of the long-buried samples, the Government scientists went to work on early-arriving samples of powdered milk left by Rear Admiral Byrd at Little America in 1940.

P:"The best all-purpose insect repellent so far developed," in the words of the Department of Agriculture, will soon be released for commercial sale. Army volunteers found that the odorless fluid--a new diethyl toluamide compound--when rubbed on the skin offered protection against mosquitoes, chiggers, ticks, fleas, and biting flies.

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