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...Schramm wants no one to assume-as some German newspapers have done-that he expects soon to create real living creatures in his laboratory. His synthetic nucleic acid is not alive; it is merely chemically similar to the giant molecules that cluster in the nuclei of living cells and enable them to reproduce their kind. But he has brought chemistry closer to the day when some resourceful researcher will put together a molecule that can lead a dim, synthetic life...
...Milwaukee's General Mitchell Field one day last week, a landing airliner was greeted by a 100-piece high school band, a chorus of can-canning cheerleaders and a cluster of city officials. Out stepped Milwaukee's Ralph Votapek, 23, to be greeted by Mayor Henry Maier. "For too long," intoned the mayor, "Milwaukee has been symbolized to the rest of the nation only by beer and the Braves. Now, thanks to Ralph Votapek, we have added a third and very important B to our national honors-Beethoven." He proclaimed Ralph Votapek Day and announced that Votapek...
...edge laboratories are performing delicate experiments to isolate such a virus from the cancers. But the region is a rich source of competing and often confusing viruses. Ironically, one of these, named Bunyamwera (after a Uganda district), has been tried experimentally as a treatment for cancer. It was a cluster of leukemia cases among children in the Chicago suburb of Niles, Ill. (TIME, June 2, 1961), that backed up the suggestion of a viral role in the lymphatic leukemia of American children...
...first, no ill effects were reported. But then a cluster of three paralytic cases developed in Oregon within seven to 30 days after vaccination. Nebraska soon had three cases, Michigan and Ohio had two each, and New York had one. Two of these eleven victims were in their teens, but the others were aged 23 to 52. The available evidence, including complex laboratory tests, indicated that in four cases the disease was caused by the vaccine. About the others, the PHS experts withheld judgment...
...trains that go through the 5,200-acre campus will stop only for hogs or horses, not humans. People who fly or drive there can see why critics call it "Sing Sing on the Brazos." Looming out of rlatland where the lowly "post oak" grows, the school is a cluster of penal-looking buildings flying the flag of Texas. Center of the campus is the Academic Building, with an odd dome topped by a bare electric light bulb that Aggies used to shoot out regularly...