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...invited every day?' " Pharmacy of the World. Since its founding 100 years ago by Dyemaker Friedrich Bayer, the company has shown a knack for seeing ahead of competitors. In the 1860s Bayer began setting up aniline plants from Albany, N.Y., to Moscow. Friedrich Bayer's successor, Chemist Carl Duisberg, transformed the company's dismal laboratories from mud-floored hovels into bright, superbly equipped plants. These became the models for modern labs elsewhere and the source of a grand succession of inventions-mediicnes to fight sleeping sickness and tuberculosis -that made Germany the pharmacy of the world. Duisberg...
...Plaintive Plea. By week's end, the parade of pro and con witnesses had some Senators bobbing their heads from side to side faster than spectators at a Wimbledon tennis match. Admitting his confusion, California Republican Thomas Kuchel addressed a plaintive appeal to Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Dr. Willard Libby...
...patterned after the U.S.'s Consumer Reports. Unlike Consumer Reports, however, Schweitzer accepts advertising, bunching it in the middle of the magazine. From earnings, DM has built a $175,000 laboratory at Stuttgart, where a staff of 20, including engineers, chemist, industrial designer and micro-photographer, test everything from toothbrushes to typewriters. DM's editorial staff of 20 reports two test results weekly, last week rated after-shave lotions and reported German skindiving masks and fins inferior to French and Italian...
...remarkable political careers and also of two Britains: Macmillan, the skillful, courageous and often ruthless patrician who had rescued his country from the debris of Suez and led it into an era of unprecedented prosperity; Harold Wilson, the dry, diligent and often devious son of a provincial chemist who had risen by hard work and chance (including the death of the man he succeeded, Hugh Gaitskell) to the top of the Labor Party. As he faced Macmillan, who had gone to Oxford by family tradition, Harold Wilson, who had gone to Oxford on a scholarship, strove to embody...
...appointment of a respected chemist to chair the present committee is recognition that it is among-scientists that the Gen Ed program most needs a new mandate. But the spiritual energy of the original program has run down elsewhere too. Conceived at the peak of the war effort, the Redbook was drafted with a sense of democratic mission that has since become dated...