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...Laurence Kulp, Columbia University geo-chemist, will speak at Phillips Brooks House at 8:15 p.m. tonight, on "A Christian View of Science." The talk is sponsored by the Harvard Chapter of the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship...
Then anonymous letters began arriving in Portland and Salem newspaper offices. Here was a question of academic freedom, the letters hinted, which reporters should investigate. After that, the rumpus began. By last week, the firing of Chemist Ralph Spitzer and Economist L. R. La Vallee showed signs of becoming as celebrated as the recent dismissals at the University of Washington (TIME...
Last week, in his first official statement, he released a blast at Chemist Spitzer. Spitzer, he said, had recently written a letter to the Chemical and Engineering News protesting the magazine's panning of Soviet Geneticist Trofim Lysenko. Spitzer argued that Lysenko's experiments in genetics, on which Moscow now bases its biological party line (TIME, Sept. 6), and which most of the world's geneticists consider unscientific, had not had a fair examination in the U.S. Then he went on to defend Soviet policy on science and culture in general...
...Dialectical Murder." That was too much for Strand. "Why," he demanded, "should a chemist bother to stir up such a controversy in the field of genetics? I can tell you. It is because he goes right down the party line without any noticeable deviation, and is an active protagonist...
...current Engineering and Science Monthly, a Caltech flavor chemist, Hoiland-born Dr. Arie J. Haagen-Smit, tells how he vacuum-distilled 6,000 pounds of pineapples and ended up with a few grams of powerful pineapple essence. He took the essence apart bit by bit, identifying microscopic amounts of flavor-giving compounds. Then he mixed a cocktail of the chemicals he had spotted. The result was a "satisfactory reproduction" of fresh pineapple smell...