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ACTH, expensively extracted from the pituitary glands of cattle, also helps many a disease, such as arthritis, but the magic compound, unfortunately, is anything but simple. It is a polypeptide, a large molecule (molecular weight 4,500) made up of many amino-acid units arranged in a long chain. Chemists have puzzled over its structure for years, but have learned only bits and scraps about it. Polypeptides (related to proteins) are baffling things to deal with...
...been filed. Cried Barbara: "Why do they torture me? I was ready at 10 o'clock." At 11:12 the phone rang once more; the court had rejected the last plea. At 11:31 Barbara entered the chamber; at 11:34 the cyanide pellets were dropped in the acid. Barbara held her breath, tilted her head back as if praying; at 11:37½ she breathed and died, aged...
...Acid Test. In Coral Gables, Fla., after it ate through gasoline tins, dissolved the plaster in the ceiling and began dripping on a sergeant's desk, police quickly dumped 55 gallons of confiscated moonshine stored in their attic...
...They have watched the number of legitimate playhouses in Manhattan drop from 75-odd (in 1929) to 32 (in 1955), and have seen the once heavy traffic in road companies dwindle to a mere trickle. Some would agree with New York Herald Tribune Drama Critic Walter Kerr's acid contention that "nobody-but nobody-is willing to subject himself to any contemporary theatrical experience he can get out of," but many may be jolted by Critic Kerr's current diagnosis of the ailment...
...nonscientific visitor," said the Los Angeles Bureau's John Koffend, "is bound to get lost, even with a guide, in an atmosphere charged with pi-mesons, v-particles, tyrosinase and halogenated cyclobutane carboxylic acid. His interpreters, the scientists themselves, are willing, but communications are difficult...