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Dutch-born Biochemist Arie Jan Haagen-Smit of Caltech, a Los Angeles city consultant on air pollution, has been doing his research while riding the Los Angeles-Pasadena freeway. His ancient Plymouth rigged with a portable carbon monoxide detector, he has sampled the tainted atmosphere at all times of day. As far out as Pasadena, the detector shows fairly clean air, but as soon as Haagen-Smit hits the freeway the deadly monoxide begins to climb. Quickly it passes 30 parts per million, which California smog authorities consider serious pollution...
Equally shrill is the Nationalist Independence Rally, once headed by Marcel Chaput, 45, a former government biochemist. Several months ago, Chaput embarked on a 34-day Gandhi-like fast and raised $100,000 for the separatist movement that he confidently predicts will win out before Canada reaches its centennial of Confederation in 1967. Last week Dr. Chaput drew angry cries of treason after he issued a warning to Queen Elizabeth, who plans to visit Canada next October. "Some of my people," he said, "are ready to let her know-and brutally-that she is no longer welcome in French Canada...
Wednesday, January 15 CHRONICLE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* The major scientific breakthroughs since 1948 discussed by Astronomer Gart Wester-hout, Maser Inventor Charles H. Townes, Geologist Bruce Heezen, Nobel-Prizewinning Physicist Chen Ning Yang, Nobel-Prizewinning Biochemist Severe Ochoa and Scientific American Publisher Gerard Piel...
...even harder time treating him. If he is dead, the coroner has difficulty deciding between accident and suicide. Medical researchers are still debating whether the effects of alcohol and barbiturates*are multiplied or simply added together. But now, in a report to the American Chemical Society, a biochemist and a physician suggest an explanation for the alky-pheno combo's deadly powers...
...Biochemist Jack E. Wallace and Physician Elmer V. Dahl could not do their research on human beings, so they took the body enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase and studied it in the test tube. Normally, this enzyme breaks down alcohol in the body to acetaldehyde, which another enzyme in turn breaks down to acetic acid. In their experiments at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, the researchers learned that barbiturates hinder the first breakdown process and leave a lot of alcohol in the system. And alcohol has a severe depressing effect on some primitive nerves, including the vital center that regulates breathing...