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...development of the vaccine began in 1963, when Dr. Baruch Blumberg of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia identified a protein from the hepatitis B virus in the blood of an Australian aborigine. Researchers soon found that the protein, dubbed Australia antigen, existed in large quantities in the blood of carriers. Dr. Saul Krugman of New York University then discovered that when infected blood serum is boiled, the virus is killed but the antigen remains able to induce production of the antibodies that prevent the illness. The experimental vaccine was developed by Virologist Maurice Hilleman of the Merck Institute...
Novelist Thomas, 44, a former staff member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and now a private business consultant, delivers a heady blend of financial expertise, jet-set elegance, cultural sophistication, romance, intrigue, karate chops and plastic explosives. Harrison himself is a rare combination: part Bernard Baruch, part Scaramouche...
...Baruch Goshen...
...woman (Shirley MacLaine) who takes him in after he has been injured in an encounter with her limousine sees him as a highly charged sexual being, although he is in fact a virgin. Her husband (Melvyn Douglas), a mighty captain of industry, believes him to be a Baruch-like financial wizard, since his few childlike responses to questions on these matters can be interpreted as metaphorical profundities. The President (Jack Warden) is similarly buffaloed by Chance's vague imagery, all of it drawn from the only subject he knows anything about, gardening...
...Johnny clears the snow from Mrs. O'Leary's driveway and makes five bucks. Does the IRS hear about it? Of course not. But Johnny's income-unreported and untaxed -is part of what Economics Professor Peter M. Gutmann of New York's Bernard Baruch College calls the "subterranean economy" of the U.S., with a G.N.P. that he calculates at $195 billion...