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Last week Sweden's Karolinska Institute underlined the importance of restriction enzymes by awarding the Nobel Prize for Medicine, this year worth $165,000, to a trio of pioneers in the field. The three, all microbiologists: Werner Arber, of the University of Basel in Switzerland, and Drs. Hamilton O. Smith and Daniel Nathans, Americans, both of Johns Hopkins University...
Microbiologists Daniel Nathans and Hamilton O. Smith of Johns Hopkins University Medical School and Werner Arber of the University of Basel were the winners of the annual award...
...canvas dated 1901 by a 26-year-old Spaniard named Pablo Picasso. It was in the 1920s and early '30s, however, that Von Hirsch assembled his medieval collection. In 1933, as the political climate in Germany grew ugly, Von Hirsch, a Jew, moved across the Swiss border to Basel. He won permission to take his collection with him on condition he turn over to the German government Lucas Cranach's painting, The Judgment of Paris. After the war, it was returned to him still bearing the label, THE PROPERTY OF REICHSMAR-SCHALL GOERING. Von Hirsch gave...
...support their price. When news leaked out two weeks ago that U.S. Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal had met secretly in Paris with European monetary officials, currency traders assumed that a dollar-propping agreement would be announced at last week's monthly meeting of central bankers in Basel, Switzerland. None was forth coming, and the selloff of dollars started anew. By midweek the herd instinct had taken hold, and in Switzerland the dollar lost 1.5% in value in a single day, one of its largest one-day drops. That will make Swiss vacations more expensive for American tourists...
When Rome Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof went back-stage at the Stadt Casino in Basel to seek out Mstislav Rostropovich, this week's cover subject, the famous Russian cellist-conductor gave him a joyous greeting. "My uncle Massimo is a concert cellist," says Amfitheatrof, "and when I introduced myself to Rostropovich, he cried, 'Your face is like Mass-eemo, and Mass-eemo is my dear friend.' It was an invitation to the extraordinary warmth that pours from Rostropovich like lava from some Slavic Vesuvius." Interviewing Rostropovich's many friends and associates for our story...