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...Montserrat. Her mother, fearing for the life of her black-faced baby, prayed to the Virgin of the nearby monastery of Montserrat, a statue sculpted in wood that has become so darkened by age and candle smoke fhat it is known as the Black Virgin. Daughter of an industrial chemist, Caballé was enrolled in Barcelona's Conservatorio del Liceo at nine, worked as a seamstress to pay for her tuition, graduated at 23 with every honor in sight. Wed last year in the Montserrat monastery to Spanish Tenor Bernabé Martí, whom she met while singing Madama...
...acquired Adriatic Electric-along with Edison, one of Italy's five big pre-nationalization electric companies-and with it a $190 million expropriation payment still due from the government. Meanwhile, other nations gradually recognized Montecatini patents on such processes as Moplen, a light, easily molded polypropylene for which Chemist Giulio Natta won the 1963 Nobel Prize. Montecatini now holds 1,800 patents, fattens its income by licensing them in 30 countries. Sales are up 31% to $633.6 million this year, although rising costs continue to hold down profits...
...chemist who had been attending a 13-week seminar at the Graduate School of Business Administration was killed, and another seminar member critically injured Saturday when two giant airliners collided over New York's suburbs...
...when the Russians and the U.S. had ended their atmospheric testing, the tritium released by H-blasts had increased the total to about 600 Ibs. The proliferation of the relatively harmless isotope has been of little concern to most laymen and scientists, but it has enabled University of Miami Chemist Gote Ostlund to draw an important conclusion about hurricanes: instead of getting most of their energy from condensing atmospheric water vapor, as meteorologists previously believed, they are powered largely by vapor sucked up from...
...make them, earning $2,000,000. His word to entrepreneurs: "Go into anything that will deal heavily in helping solve the problems of the population explosion-to help provide food and fresh water to provide transportation and communications systems, to clean the air." Charles Gelman, 33, a Michigan chemist who was brought up in an orphanage, figured that he could build an improved air-pollution sampler. He put together a device from hardware-store parts, has since amassed a $1,300,000 fortune from a filter-manufacturing business that is growing along with the public clamor for air-pollution control...