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Died. Angelo Ravagli, 84, self-proclaimed catalyst of D.H. Lawrence's novel of infidelity Lady Chatterley's Lover; in Spotorno, Italy. Ravagli made the claim, supported by at least one biographer, that Lawrence's wife Frieda could not resist his graceful good looks and finally yielded to him while the Lawrences vacationed in Spotorno-at which point Lawrence discovered them flagrante delicto. Lawrence took literary revenge by writing Lady Chatterley. In 1930, after Lawrence succumbed to tuberculosis, Ravagli wrote to Frieda: "I am waiting for you." She came. Ravagli abandoned his wife and three children for Frieda...
Instead, they turned to the research of Nobel Prizewinners Howard Temin and David Baltimore (TIME, July 20, 1970), who had discovered an enzyme, or chemical catalyst, capable of reversing the normal genetic process in which DNA orders the production of "messenger" molecule RNA. Their enzyme permits RNA to manufacture the master molecule DNA. The Harvard team broke down rabbit hemoglobin and isolated its RNA. They then mixed this RNA with the Temin-Baltimore enzyme in a rich nutrient broth. They were thus able to trick the RNA into making the DNA from which it itself had been produced...
...work permits a reconciliation of man and nature, love is the catalyst to the growth of a genuine spirit of community. The welfare-corporate state promotes a perverse love, an admiration of certain physical or moral attributes that deny the lover recognition as an individual. The person who experiences personal love, breaks away from the rational principles of liberalism: he is willing to put the safety of a lamb above the welfare of the flock. The promotion of this kind of love and its extension to relationships throughout the community is a prerequisite to the emergence of a more coherent...
...matter where the memorial ends up it will serve as a catalyst for development. For Charlestown that will mean an unused Navy yard turned into a national historical park with a variety of projects. For Dorchester it may mean the funds needed to completely renovate the Columbia Point Housing project and build new housing...
...vicissitudes of the Spanish economy may prove to be a catalyst for radical workers' actions after Franco dies. Unemployment is unofficially running at 4.5 per cent and would be far higher if the government had not this year increased spending and refused industries permission to lay off workers. Wage settlements, which are up by 25 per cent this year, are still ahead of 17 per cent annual inflation rate--but only because the Franco regime has attempted to buy off discontent at the cost of fanning inflation and discouraging private investment, which has fallen off dramatically over the past year...