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...perpetually wrinkled forehead popped up everywhere as Dej's delegate: Moscow in 1959 and 1961, Italy in 1962, Peking in 1964. On his only known Western vacation, Ceausescu checked into Paris' Prince de Galles Hotel in 1963, along with his slim, sloe-eyed wife Elena, herself a chemist and economics writer. Elena Ceausescu won her bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1963, after Gheorghiu-Dej decided education was an asset for his underlings. At the same time, Ceausescu emerged suddenly with a degree in engineering...
...known, is now reaching a black market. The flood of stuff in California is all bootleg, some imported from Mexico, more of it home-brewed by chemistry majors-probably in college labs-and by cheap-jack operators in garages. LSD is so distressingly easy for a competent chemist to make from inexpensive materials, there is a constant danger that poisonous impurities may be left...
...After a period of free study, one Pomona student reported: "Well, I've learned one thing: I don't have any self-discipline." A Stanford student objects to dropping grades, contends: "There are enough students of little competence-why encourage them?" A faculty adviser at Lake Forest, Chemist William B. Martin, worries about "superficial" study by unguided students, who might read The Canterbury Tales but not really understand it. There is no doubt, says Allegheny English Professor Henry Pommer, that a few students "goof off" when on their...
...substance in its solid and liquid states, besides offering a new approach to studies of the melting process. In retrospect, Kennedy's discovery might seem obvious, but the startling truth is that generations of scientists overlooked it. "The profession must be full of asses," says Nobel Prize Chemist Willard Libby, discoverer of the carbon-14 dating process. "How can anyone be so stupid as not to have seen...
...pill's hormones are derived mostly from a chemical called diosgenin, which until 1945 was obtainable only in small quantities from tropical plants. Then Dr. George Rosenkranz, at that time a Syntex research chemist, found that the Mexican yam, or barbasco root, yielded much larger amounts of diosgenin. In 1951 Syntex's Dr. Carl Djerassi first synthesized from it female sex hormones that women could swallow. Later it was discovered that the hormones were effective as an oral contraceptive. Syntex then began selling the compound to other drug firms, later introduced its own pill. Both Syntex and Searle...