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...means raid in most European languages, and the picture describes an attempt by the French narcotics squad to break up an international drug cartel. Raw materials: principally opium-smuggled from the Balkans in the wall of the men's room in a day coach. Manufacture: by a derelict chemist in a well-equipped laboratory in the cellar of a shabby frame house in a rundown suburb. Distribution: by courier to retail outlets, by an infinite variety of special arrangements between buyer and seller. Protection: by hired thugs-a small outfit by U.S. standards, but what they lack in numbers...
Nobel prize-winner Edward M. Purcell and Russian-born chemist George B. Kistiakowsky were added to the committee which is now directly responsible to the President on "problems of national policy involving science and technology...
What is really needed, said University of California's Chemist Joel Hildebrand in a speech called "Education in the Light of the Satellites," is to wipe away the distortions of John Dewey's thinking that have led so many schools to fall for the cults of life adjustment. "One of our greatest dangers lies in an anti-intellectualism fostered by school authorities who should be among its most valiant opponents. One expression of it is the pious cliche, 'We teach boys and girls, not subjects.' The superintendent of schools in a large city puts this into...
...Scientists," says a California physicist, "are this century's version of the explorers of earlier times" And yet, as a nuclear chemist says, "most scientists are rather revoltingly normal in their manners and their way of life." These nine leading lights of U.S. science prove both points by their composite beginnings, their curiosities and their achievements. They also prove why the nation's scientific resources are basically sound and promising...
Educated as an organic chemist (University of Glasgow), Sir Alexander got interested in the complex chemical compounds that abound in living cells. Biologists knew little in those days about these compounds which are so unstable that attempts to study them usually destroy them. Sir Alexander tried a new approach. Applying the subtle methods of organic chemistry, he synthesized, one by one, a wide range of delicate biochemicals, including vitamins E and B1. His research led him to the nucleus of the cell, where the all-powerful genes are stored. These mysterious chemicals, which control heredity and growth, are made...