Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Gingras wrote some sample chapters but quit, evidently because Mrs. Gallagher found her too sympathetic to Jackie. She was replaced by Frances Spatz Leighton. According to press reports, Mrs. Leighton sent a memo to a New York literary agent last November, calling the Gallagher information "the hottest property currently in the U.S.A. and possibly the world." She added confidently: "You needn't waste your time with any publisher who doesn't see this as earning several millions...
SOME DIABOLICAL booking agent selected Bullitt's to open in the Central Cinema One, next to Weekend. It shows as clearly as the latter how essential moral sensibility is to honest American films...
...Army's Rocky Mountain Arsenal estimated that a single drop of the nerve gas in liquid form on the back of a man's hand could kill him in 30 seconds. Sarin has been improved since then. The Army also stocks mustard gas, a blistering agent that burns the skin and was widely used in World War I, plus such familiar riot-control agents as vomit gases, tear gas and its stronger version, CS. Also kept on hand for experimentation are small quantities of incapacitating gases designed to interfere temporarily with mental processes but not to kill...
...Tribulation Row." Fertilized eggs enter the labs in compartmented trays and move through the cabinets on conveyor belts. As they pass, the eggs are infected by lab technicians working through the cabinet walls with heavy rubber gloves and hypodermic needles. Sample eggs are then candled to determine whether the agent is properly infecting the embryos. After a brief stay in incubators, the eggs are broken, and the toxic product is separated from the embryo and put into a centrifuge to eliminate impurities. Some of the processed material is used for test purposes. The remainder is frozen into pellets and hermetically...
Proponents of antiviral drugs concede that a single agent, such as amantadine, is effective only against a narrow range of infections. But, they point out, that is also true of vaccines. Yet a hundred or more different viruses cause what is loosely called the common cold, and many more are responsible for other upper respiratory infections. For all virologists, the hope is that the laboratories will eventually yield antiviral agents, whether drugs or vaccines, that are more broadly effective...