Word: carlson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even chemicals. Moreover, any terms for final settlement that the Justice Department offers IBM will have to take into account their possible effect on such weighty national matters as the U.S. balance of payments and world scientific leadership. As recently as three weeks ago, Justice Department Prosecutor Raymond M. Carlson candidly admitted: "We're not ready for trial...
Married. William Harrah, 61, gambling impresario who parlayed a bingo parlor into Nevada casinos (Harrah's Reno and Lake Tahoe clubs), second in winnings only to those of Howard Hughes; and Roxana Carlson, 32, a model; he for the fifth time, she for the second; at his Lake Tahoe estate...
...experiment, directed by Biologist Peter Carlson at Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory, involved two species of wild tobacco called Nicotiana glauca and Nicotiana langsdorffii. In the past, researchers have been able to crossbreed these two common plants by sexual means-fertilizing one plant with the pollen of the other-but many species will simply not breed sexually with others. Carlson, borrowing techniques recently developed by scientists in England and Japan, accomplished the trick with individual cells. First he treated cells from each kind of leaf with an enzyme that dissolves their protective cellulose walls but leaves the rest...
...Carlson has tried the same experiment with weirder combinations-carrots and tobacco, for instance-but was unable to get the fused cells to reproduce. The problem, he says, is probably only technical, involving such variable factors as temperature and light conditions. If it can be solved, there seems to be no reason why the same cell-fusing technique cannot be used to breed totally new plants that have the most desirable features of their parents...
...following Radcliffe juniors have been elected to Phi Betta Kappa: Marian B. Carlson of South House and Paris, France; Elizabeth J. Coe of Lowell House and Larchmont, N.Y.; Catherine A. Guyton of Quincy House and Jackson, Miss.; Helen M. Hershkoff of Eliot House and Rockaway Park, N.Y.; Yeou-Cheng Marie-Therese Ma of North House and New York City; Margaret V. Sacks of Lowell House and Washington, D.C.; Laura Schafer of Adams House and New Haven, Conn.; and Sharon Shurts of Dunster House and Waterford, Conn...