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...viral nucleic acid, in effect masquerading as a gene, might do one of two things after invading a bacterium: 1) stimulate the bacterial cell to produce hundreds of copies of the virus particle, and destroy itself in the process, as happens in many ordinary human viral infections, or 2) attach itself to the host cell's genetic material and then lie dormant, only to reappear consistently in successive generations of host-cell bacteria. After this dormant phase, chemicals or radiation can still trigger the intruder gene into becoming infective and destructive...
Premier Ky has his own kill-or-cure answer. Wearing wrap-around sunglasses and a button-down choler, he flew through the country last week in his purple Aerocommander, counselling the crowds: "Blindfold all the rice merchants, attach them to a pole, and ask them whether or not they agree to lower their prices." The cocky little air force general had even tougher words for a U.S. correspondent on his plane. Said he: "I'll govern this country like a military command. If I say the price of rice should drop, what I want to see is a price...
...diplomatic passport to pass through East German border guards, 19-year-old Marek Radomski appeared at West Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie on May 5, told the American MPs on duty that he was "sick of the miserable life under Communism." The young defector's father is an attaché in Poland's embassy in East Berlin and is rumored to be chief of Polish intelligence in all East Germany...
...Crimson, with senior Dick Ames moved from attach to first midfield, was no match for the fast, smooth Ell attack. When Harvard got the ball, a combination of sloppy hall handling and hard Yale checking prevented them from doing anything with...
Nowadays pop art has made Rivers respectable. To even the most apocalyptic, often reluctant, critics, he appears as the logical, stable span between Pollock, Kline and De Kooning and the newcomers who actually attach real beer cans to their paintings. His 155-work exhibition that opens this week at Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum,* proves that Rivers is exciting in his own right. Even the commonplace cliché of General George fording the Delaware looks good beside a giant representation of a Campbell soup can. The crucial difference is that Rivers, unlike the pop artists, does not leave...