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...mental deficiency genetically determined? Probably so, says California Institute of Technology's famed Chemist Linus Pauling. Last week the Ford Foundation announced that it was betting $450,000 (to be spread over five years) on Pauling's hunch...
...question buzzed insistently through the mind of the young Jewish chemist as he hung on the adventures of Russian Explorer Ivan Papanin: Where did he find drinking water in the arctic? After the lecture, Alexander Zarchin shouldered his way to the front of the classroom at the Leningrad Technical Institute and got a deceptively simple answer. "We melted icebergs," explained Papanin...
...once the province of cautious artisans armed with little more than a magnifying glass, a loaf of fresh bread (without the crust) for gently erasing dirt, and perhaps some soapy water and varnish. Now a new breed of "scientific" restorers, equipped with a surgeon's tools, a chemist's swabs, and a burning curiosity about what lies under the next layer of paint, has moved into most of the world's great museums. At best, their efforts have resulted in such spectacular triumphs as the restoration of Leonardo's Last Supper (TIME...
...John) Stafford Ellithorp Jr., 61, former president of Beech-Nut Packing Co., was elected to the same post in the recently consolidated Beech-Nut Life Savers, Inc. (TIME, June 18). Ellithorp broke in as a chemist with the company 39 years ago, shortly after taking his B.S. at Syracuse University ('16). Still very much the chief executive of the combined companies: Life Saver Pioneer Edward John Noble, 74, board chairman...
Atomic Weather. In nearly all parts of the world, atomic-bomb tests are blamed for unusual weather. In the U.S., for instance, an article in the Saturday Review by Dr. Irving Bengelsdorf (an organic chemist) blames bomb tests for steering hurricanes toward New England-despite the fact that there were destructive New England hurricanes in 1938 and 1944, before any bomb had been exploded...