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...from unique in their feeling about Government meddling in their business. Yet despite all the federal controls, the American farmer through his ingenuity and industry keeps raising bigger and better crops. He thereby contributes to the U.S.'s crisis of abundance. Still, in the age of the atom and at a time when famine remains a fact of life to millions, there could be worse crises...
...time he was so critical of Communism that Soviet propaganda labeled him "a philosophizing wolf." As late as 1948 he declared that "anything is better than submission" to Communist dictatorship, even advocated dropping nuclear bombs on the Soviet Union if it refused international control of the atom...
...microscope to land on Mars and sample possible life there. Even more conducive to Big Science at Palo Alto is Sterling's most audacious 1962 coup: a $114 million AEC contract to build a two-mile linear accelerator, which eventually will be the world's most powerful atom smasher...
...concessions to drill in Iran, India, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Somalia and the Sudan. Italy's business leaders fumed as Mattei, building an empire worth $2 billion, poached on more and more preserves of free enterprise. E.N.I. now owns motels, cafes, a newspaper (Milan's Il Giorno), an atom power plant and factories producing synthetic rubber, cement, plastics, fertilizers...
...Life. Determination of DNA's structure was as important to studies of the secrets of life as was the splitting of the atom to physics. The thousands of rungs connecting the helices are made up of nucleotides put together in a definite order. This order is a code that determines whether a particular germ cell will develop into a mouse or a man. The chromosomes that dictate heredity are, essentially, chains of DNA. When one of these vital molecules in an animal cell is altered by radiation, chemicals, or in any other way, the result may be the aberrant...