Word: beerman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miriam Beerman, 46, lives in Brooklyn, where her husband teaches high school. She paints such pretty topics as shrieking faces, jackals and concentration-camp victims because, as she says forthrightly, "I've always been furious at the world." Born in Providence, Mrs. Beerman studied under Yasuo Kuniyoshi at Manhattan's Art Students League before taking off to France to immerse herself in Goya, the German expressionists, and (as her painting style shows) Britain's Francis Bacon. She is fascinated by the "natural world," and has done a series of paintings on fish, bats, owls. At the moment...
...Wolfgang Beerman of West Germany's Max Planck Institute showed pictures of ropy, wormlike chromosomes with strange swellings, and reported on the delicate experiments with which he proved that the swellings are associated with active genes. Geneticists agree that active genes produce RNA (ribonucleic acid) and that RNA produces proteins. Dr. Beerman satisfied himself as to the meaning of the swellings he had photographed through his electron microscope, by finding RNA and protein where theory predicted they should be-right around the lumps on the chromosomes...
...Disgusting," said Education Minister Joseph Cals, and a meeting of Student Corps leaders voted, 127 to 87, to modify such monstrosities as the pig killing. But they left the system generally intact, which delighted many an old Dutch college grad. In the good old days, recalled Justice Minister Albert Beerman, a Leiden man, some students there were involved in a hazing scandal. "But finally," said he, "they all came to high and respectable posts in Dutch society...