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Died. Percy L. Julian, 76, prolific black research chemist; of cancer; in Waukegan, Ill. Grandson of a slave, Alabama-born Julian won honors at Harvard and the University of Vienna on his way to garnering over 130 chemical patents. His pioneering work with soybeans led to discoveries ranging from a drug for treating glaucoma to aerofoam, the Navy's fire-extinguishing "bean soup" of World War II. But he was best known for his low-cost method of synthesizing cortisone, which made him both a millionaire and a major financial angel to the civil rights movement...
...caricature does not quite fit. Beneath that unruffled exterior is a steely, strong-minded woman of disciplined ambition and impressive intelligence. A grocer's daughter, she won a scholarship to Oxford, where she earned an M.A. in chemistry. At 23 she was a practicing research chemist, a law student in her spare time and a parliamentary candidate running for her first office -all while preparing for her marriage to now wealthy Oilman Denis Thatcher. She lost that election, but after giving birth to twins and working several years as a barrister specializing in tax law, she entered the House...
...when he is dead, The Invisible Man made Rains' ghastly reputation. Now David McCallum, one of TV's men from UNCLE of a decade ago, has taken over the role in a made-for-TV movie to be aired on March 11. Wells' fantasy of a chemist made invisible, then driven mad by his own invention has been updated. "The military industrial complex wants to get hold of my formula for becoming invisible," explains McCallum. Jokes on the set never run out. "The prop man keeps changing the name on my chair. First it said Claude Rains...
...students she expects to be an interpreter or a schoolteacher--who said that though some of her friends who like children hope to teach, she herself would rather interpret, "but the country's needs should come first." Then a friend of hers explained how she, as a would-be chemist, might have been sent to language school instead: "So I would learn to speak beautiful English, and study chemicals on my own--from books or with other comrades' help...
Overenthusiastic French vignerons have a weakness for declaring their latest vintage to be "the wine of the century." Thus when 18 Bordeaux wine merchants and brokers, plus one laboratory chemist, went on trial late last month on charges of selling fraudulently labeled wine, the scandal was inevitably pronounced "the wine trial of the century." That may be a slightly extravagant claim; commenting on the scandal, a London Sunday Times cartoon showed a more restrained British wine-taster savoring the events and declaring, "not a great trial but an interesting one." Nonetheless, the episode has proved an embarrassment to France...