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Both books are cast as Pyatnitski's memoirs of a life uprooted by the Russian Revolution. He brags of his exploits as a Don Cossack; he claims pure Russian ; blood and a batch of patents for airplanes and automobiles. But one can never be sure that anything Pyatnitski says is true. He is certainly an egomaniac and very likely mad; he is also a reactionary Tom Swift, an anti-Semite, a sybarite and a paranoiac with a gargantuan appetite for cocaine...
...Yale's archives. Classical music lovers were thrilled precisely because these works, unknown and unperformed, had been lost. The same sense of loss and rediscovers happens when a work is known to exit but is ready soon or performed. Witness the excitement over last year's of a batch if Hitcheock films...
...venture-capital firms to invest $1.6 million, which then seemed "an astronomical amount of money." By the end of the year, the scientists produced the world's first commercially manufactured monoclonal antibody, which acted against hepatitis. Licensed just for research, Hybritech sold only $10,000 worth of the first batch, mostly to inquisitive rival labs...
...firm has long made propulsion systems and other hardware for the U.S. space program and the shuttle. On five nights earlier this year, McDonnell Douglas and Johnson & Johnson, the New Jersey medical-supply company, ran electrophoresis experiments, which allowed precise separation under weightless conditions of biological materials. Although one batch was contaminated, the others permitted the removal of impurities too small to be extracted on earth. One possible outgrowth: production of insulin-producing cells to control diabetes. Says Isaac Gillam, the NASA official in charge of commercial programs: "We will see products manufactured in space from the McDonnell Douglas...
Fierce struggles are expected over controversial weapons systems. Early in the year, both chambers will vote twice on whether to produce 21 MX missiles. Although Congress has funded a first batch of 21 missiles, foes of the weapon believe that the MX program can be shut down before 1986 deployment if Congress balks this time. Congress may also refuse to build more B-l bombers beyond the 100 already paid for. Reagan's request for $1.7 billion in research funds for his Star Wars plan will encounter determined opposition on Capitol Hill. Congress has allowed testing of an antisatellite...