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...Monoclonal antibodies have revolutionized biomedical research and are becoming important weapons in treating and diagnosing disease. It therefore came as no surprise to the scientific community last week when Argentine-born Milstein, 57, and West German Köhler, 38, who is now at the Institute for Immunology in Basel, Switzerland, were given the 1984 Nobel Prize for Medicine. They shared the award with Niels Jerne, 72, founding director of the Basel institute and a pioneer thinker in immunology...
...weeks ago, a white Mercedes-Benz truck with SOVTRANSAVTO painted in blue Cyrillic letters on its side pulled up to the Swiss border at Basel. The nine-ton tractor-trailer did not need to be inspected, the three Soviets inside insisted, because it was merely a "diplomatic pouch." But Swiss officials refused to accept that. Though the Vienna Convention does not specify a maximum size for a diplomatic pouch, the Swiss pointed out, in practice it almost never covers cartons of more than 450 Ibs. After much haggling, the Swiss allowed the truck to continue to the Soviet mission...
After graduating from Buenos Aires' Union Theological Seminary in 1950, he studied with renowned Protestant Theologian Karl Barth in Basel, Switzerland. Castro, married and the father of two children, has served as a pastor in Uruguay and Bolivia, and has held several administrative posts, including the presidency of Uruguay's Evangelical Methodist Church. In 1973 he moved to Geneva to become director of the W.C.C.'s Commission on World Mission and Evangelism. He left that post last year to work on a doctorate...
...Howard Hodgkin or half a dozen others. And among them, prominently, one thinks of Malcolm Morley. Morley is 52. His first retrospective-curated by Nicholas Serota, director of London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, and handsomely introduced by Art Historian Michael Compton-has spent the past year touring from Basel to London to Chicago; it opened this month at its final stop, New York City's Brooklyn Museum. With its 52 paintings, the show spans less than 20 years, from 1965 to 1982. It is a highly edited affair that says nothing about Morley's background...
...breathtaking in clarity and detail; in a shot of the legendary Piz Palü, fresh marks of alpinists' climbing irons are clearly visible. Swiss Panorama ranges from cloud-topped peaks and neatly patterned farmland to well-preserved medieval communities and bustling modern cities like Basel and Zurich. Schulthess has a taste for fierce, melodramatic peaks, but even his photographs cannot stifle the ultimate feeling that Switzerland always evokes; happily, it remains at bottom what Hermann Hesse said of Appenzell: "Sunday country...