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Wednesday, May 11,1983/The Battalion/Page 15 treatment operates by magnets meone put this bicycle on the bulletin board near Rudder Tower Thursday either for safety’s photo by Craig Harris sake, or as a practical joke. Finals pressure can do strange things to people, especially students. olyester inventor washing e image of the fabric developed e truth, about rtories. ‘ Ul P United Press International and imBalLAS — Even though 95 winnrlrcent of all Americans wear at rnatioi »jst some polyester clothing, Tinghog'product’s image could stand ar l canfte laundering. homasBDmitry Gagarine, former f° r thtH president and research di- lam inpor of Milliken Sc Co., Spar- B>urg, S.C., is on the road with cetosv jap and water, doing just that, is an C'P'We have corrected just ab- said. ut everything that was wrong -1 donip polyester,” says Gagarine, ila scientist-turned-pitchman lasbenw led a team that de y since it for h .hallen! i no ot ngexcep ” she s; ^cles ani .d lifts'* eek. Bu thick )dy and netitlVfM United Press International aman’s WASHINGTON — The Na- , t i t jhoi Hal Conservative Political Ac ’s both p Committee announced take me fesday the first of a series of tnk yoii F er ' can Heroes for Reagan” Hies will be held June 2 in intense Huston. to mat |r err y Dolan, NCPAC chair- , 0 rk tf ln ' said the rally in support of osucces S president, who has not yet tee so® jounced his 1984 plans, “will Tor American heroes and e a shameless appeal to pat- sm — the type of patriotism Ronald Reagan so well odies.” f the decision to hold the rally in Texas, Dolan said, at better state to kick off our es for the president than u p thef peas, where heroes fought and h tproved polyester product ‘d Visa for Mil an tmt named Visa for Milliken. Now he has left retirement on his South Carolina cattle farm to promote the remarkable qual ities of Visa and, in doing so, to scrub clean the somewhat tar nished image polyester received back in the days of double-knit leisure suits. Gagarine, a Russian-born textile chemist, was one of the inventors of wash-and-wear fab rics. His identification as a man who freed American women from their ironing boards has helped give him an audience on radio and television interview shows. He carries with him samples of Visa fabrics that look and feel like woolen worsted and gabar dine, linen, silk and cotton. “Polyester had a bad name. We have had to change the pub lic perception of polyester,” he said. “It had an especially bad reputation in Texas and the Southwest because it didn’t breathe. By that we mean it did not transport moisture. When it was hot, it bottled up moisture Houston chosen as site >f first patriotism rally between the skin and the fabric and was very uncomfortable.” But Visa transports moisture, he said. In a Visa garment, mois ture moves to the outside where cooling evaporation takes place. Visa also releases stains, which Gagarine demonstrates by washing white polyester fab rics stained with vegetable oil. The oil floats off the Visa gar ment but stays imbedded in the normal polyester. And Visa also resists greying. Gagarine demonstrates this by dousing the fabrics in water mixed with dirty motor oil. The Visa product emerges white, the other polyester is uniformly grey. United Press International LOS ANGELES—A new can cer treatment in which doctors use magnets to draw cancer cells from bone marrow then return the healthy marrow to the body has had promising results in an experimental operation on a young man, scientists say. Scientists at the Jet Prop ulsion Laboratory in suburban Pasadena, where the technique was developed, disclosed Mon day it was used April 25 in Lon don to treat a 23-year-old man for neuroblastma, an often fatal type of cancer that originates at the adrenal glands near the kidney. The man was reported to be in good condition, but resear chers said it would be three weeks before it could be deter mined if the operation was suc cessful. Doctors planned to use the process Tuesday for the second time, to treat an Irish boy whose bone marrow will be flown to London. The technique, used in com bination with conventional che motherapy, relies on magnetic “immunomicrospheres” — or beads — of polystyrene plastic to cleanse the bone marrow of can cer cells. “The mixing of the magnetic beads with the bone marrow takes place after the marrow is taken out of the body,” Dr. Edwin Beckenbach, director of JPL’s biomedical program, ex plained. “You put a magnet next to the mixture and the cancerous cells are drawn off. That leaves be hind healthy marrow,” which is returned to the body. In laboratory tests, resear chers have been able to remove The technique, used in combination with con ventional chemother apy, relies on magnetic “imm unomicros- pheres” — or beads — of polystyrene plastic to cleanse the bone mar row of cancer cells. 99.9 percent of tumor cells from marrow samples. The breakthrough if the tech nique proves successful, resear chers said, would be the ability to retain the bone marrow’s heal thy cells, which help fight infec tion, while killing the cancerous cells. Chemotherapy renders the marrow incapable of car rying out its role in the body’s immune system. “If you simply treat the pa tient with any kind of therapy, in particular radiation therapy, you can be quite successful in killing off the cancer cells in his body,” Beckenbach said. “But you also damage other parts of the body at the same time.” Under the treatment, 10 per cent of the bone marrow is drawn out with a syringe. Che motherapy is used to treat the remainder. The portion of marrow re moved is treated with the magnetic plastic beads, then re turned to the patient’s body to carry on immune functions while regenerating to replace the marow damaged by radia tion treatment. Henry. Fuhrmann, a JPL spokesman, noted the technique is only a first step in cancer treat ment. “Cancer originates in the tumor and spreads through the bone marrow,” he noted. “This treatment is handling the second part of that, the spread. What remains is treatment of what’s causing the cancer.” JPL chemist Alan Rembaum i worked with biochemist John T. Kemstead of the Imperial Can cer Research Fund in London and chemist John Ugelstad of the University of Trondheim, Norway, in his immunomicros pheres research. THE CONDO MART INTERESTED IN BUYING OR SELLING A CONDOMINIUM? WHY NOT CALL THE EX PERTS AT GREEN & BROWNE REALTY FOR A FREE CONSULTATION? WE ARE THE SALES LEADERS IN BRYAN-COLLEGE STA TION. WE’LL BE HAPPY TO DISCUSS THE INVESTMENT AND TAX BENEFITS WITH YOU. CALL THE CONDO MART TODAY AND ASK FOR DAVIS NORTHCUTT. 846-5701. THE CONDQ MART died at the Alamo to preserve freedom.” The rally will be held at the Sheraton Houston Hotel at 7 p.m. CDT. 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