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...China-born Dr. Hsu, whose more conventional field is the study of chromosome behavior, concedes that this notion is still close to science fiction. But he can point out that a complete carrot plant has indeed been grown from a single carrot cell. At any rate, other scientists are becoming interested; some have even risked life and limb to contribute to his frozen...
...where the artists whose works he had bought-Max Ernst, Man Ray, and Marcel Duchamp-repaid him by giving him pointers in painting. Today Copley's Surrealist collection ranks as the finest in the U.S., takes up much of his spacious Manhattan apartment, where he lives with his China-born wife,' Chuang-Hua, the author of a 1969 novel called Crossings...
...Museums must create a mood of excitement and anticipation, of mystery," says China-born U.S. Architect Ieoh Ming Pei. "Fatigue is not just in the feet, it's in the mood." Seldom has an architect done more to enhance the sense of expectation for the visitor than did Pei in his Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y., which opens to the public this week. It is only the most recent in a series of exciting new buildings that add up to a museum explosion in 1968 (see color pages...
Married. James Pusey, 26, second son of Harvard's President Nathan M. Pusey, currently teaching Chinese at Harvard; and Anne Chi-fang Wang, 20, mainland China-born daughter of a historian at Singapore's Nanyang University; in Cambridge, Mass...
...good one to hold; Bache's growth rate is even faster than Merrill Lynch's, and the company recently distinguished itself by raising $270 million to underwrite the Manhattan Fund started by China-born Financier Gerald Tsai Jr. Bache gained new strength by becoming a corporation; most of its 70 partners immediately became vice presidents with correspondingly high salaries plus better tax breaks and such employee benefits as pensions. The corporation no longer has to worry about a principal problem of partnership: substantial sums of money being pulled out suddenly after a partner's death. Bache...