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...Neither a charitable grant nor a business venture," the program will have no specific commercial application. Laurence I. Peterson vice president of Celanese Research said yesterday. Ornston said research at Yale will focus on fundamental questions about the genetic basis of the breakdown of chemical compounds by microbes rather than specific applications of these processes...
Roosevelt assumed leadership during one of the greatest crises in modern history-a crisis that seemed to mark the total breakdown of the American system-and his response to that emergency changed the nation's ways forever. In the tumultuous period still known as the Hundred Days, he pushed through Congress a broad array of legislation, ranging from the reform of the nation's banks to the reorganization of the entire farm system. Yet as the expected battles in Congress over new taxes and budget cuts will make clear, the arguments of 1932 still shape the state...
...conventional view, Moscow will intervene in Poland only in the event of a general breakdown of law-and-order, or of a direct threat to the Warsaw Pact. If they should ever do so, in the opinion of Colonel Jonathan Alford of London's Institute for Strategic Studies, the intervention would be carried out "with a very great margin of superiority." His estimate is that the Soviets would bring in as many as 35 divisions, with around 500,000 men. But Alford believes the Soviet high command has counseled caution over Poland. One reason: even on so crushing a scale...
...that the going was even tougher, and it was almost nine o'clock when the bus hit Cambridge. Turning into Soldiers Field was another matter, and the vehicle ended up wedged between the stone gate posts at the parking lot entrance. Assorted people left there, but "there was another breakdown after that," said Cleary. "I didn't leave Dillon until noon...
Harvard also had difficulty keeping the opposition's big forwards out from under the basket. Rice scored a large majority of its points from within five feet, while Northwestern's 59-per-cent field goal average reflected not sharp shooting, but a breakdown of the Crimson defense under the basket...