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...that has grown fat with long success recover its youthful thrust and vigor? For Chris-Craft Corp., the world's largest manufacturer of motorboats, the answer to this question was to be found last week in boatyards in Michigan and Florida. There, hidden under tarpaulins, lay the sleek 2j-H. aluminum cabin cruisers that Chris-Craft plans to put on the market next month, as well as prototypes of a racy fiber-glass runabout that the company may include in its 1962 line...
...Federal Government within its budget is as complicated as the Einstein theory plus Parkinson's Law. But the simple arithmetic that Budget Director Maurice Stans put on the public blackboard last week showed that the problem is getting well out of hand. The fiscal year is only 2j months old, but the budget is already...
When Dr. Tadakatsu Tazaki, fired with ambition to find new antibiotics, visited Nagoya University (230 miles west of Tokyo) in 1952, one of the first things he did was to spoon up a sample of soil from the medical-compound garden. Hopefully, he labeled it K-2J, sent it to his ex-chief, Microbiologist Hamao Umezawa, at Tokyo University. There it became one of the 1,200 soil samples tested every year to see whether they harbor microbes capable of producing substances to kill other microbes...
Last week the payoff was reported at a two-day Manhattan medical meeting: kanamycin, an antibiotic developed from a microbe found in K-2J, has won quick renown. Like all potent drugs, it has its disadvantages (it must usually be given by injection, and long-continued heavy dosage may cause some degree of deafness). But it seems worthy to rank with the tetracyclines, which, after penicillin (still queen of antibiotics), are now the most-used antibiotics...
Like Hitler's appeal to his people through the voice of Joseph Goebbels (see p. 2j), Hitler's appeal to his men on assuming his new command showed the full measure of his uneasiness...