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...mold, found in fertile soil, is cultivated in a sugary solution. It develops a network of very fine branches, *called "mycelium," which secrete penicillin. If the delicate mycelium breaks, production of penicillin stops. Temperature must be kept at 24°C. Worst of all hazards is contamination. The sugary bath in which the mold grows is an ideal medium for bacteria; if any get in, they destroy all penicillin present in three hours. And when all these hazards are survived, the yield is fantastically small. The broth from which powdered penicillin is extracted contains only two to six thousandths...
...moonlit night in the rolling hill country near Bath, a tall, uniformed figure stopped at a lorry driver's cottage and tapped on the door. A window was raised, a few words were exchanged and presently a woman stepped out with a coat thrown over her nightdress. She walked down the road beside the man in the uniform...
Last week the same soldier, a strapping Negro, stood, solemn-faced, before a court-martial of seven U.S. Army officers. Before the same court-martial had appeared the Bath lorry driver's wife. She said that the Negro had knocked and asked for directions to Bristol. She said that she walked down the road with him to show him the way. She said that he threatened her with a knife, lifted her over a wall and raped...
...turbulence of all her viscera." But the Count was still in love with Solange (he had left her in France). He had only "a sentimental veneration for [Veronica's] vacant, meningitic stare," though he liked to surprise her "by refined flashes of turpitude." Soon, "life became like a bath in a tepid lake." "If one day I decided to kill myself," mused the Count. "I should choose the moment immediately after the radio had announced the despairing and inexorable phrase, 'Bulova Watch Time...
From Madrid came an experienced, serious observer with a report that Spain is ripe for revolution: "I had the opportunity to talk with all sorts of people, diplomats, businessmen, Government officials of all kinds, people on the streets. Everywhere I heard talk of an inevitable blood bath to oust Francisco Franco and his dictatorship. Even high-ranking military figures confided that revolution is the only...