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Steiner is investigating light scattering in the actin-myosin system at Gibbs Memorial Laboratory. He expects to get his Ph.D. in physical chemistry this year and plans to do his research at the University of California, Berkeley...
Synthetic Muscle. The fibers can be duplicated in the laboratory out of their chemical constituents, actin and myosin. When properly stimulated, the, synthetic muscles react much like the real thing. "We have reproduced, and thus made it possible to analyze, one of the most mysterious manifestations of life," says Szent-Gyorgyi. "Seeing actomyosin contract for the first time was the most exciting experience in [my] scientific career...
Getting down to current issues, Morse promised that he would press the fight in the Senate on Civil Rights legislation, outlawing of present filibuster techniques, amending of Taft-Hartley labor, bill, and insuring of Congressional actin on all treaties and 'executive agreements." The Oregon Senator stated that he thought war was not imminent. "However, I do feel that the greatest danger to peace now comes from the Pacific area," he continued, "and not from the Berlin crisis...
...Little Trouble. Over Europe, just as we saw the first flak, we had a little trouble. The skipper said "Number Four engine is actin' up, but I'm gonna take her on, anyway." He feathered it a while, then unfeathered just before we hit the German border...
Said Messenger Parker: "I knowed dem banjo heads wuzn't representin' de true spirit of de University an' I was provoked an' wore out wid de way dey wuz actin'. ... He didn't tech me, no indeedy, fuh you see I has de body motion an' weaved...