Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic facts and figures of Goldfine's cobrful life and complex business dealings were assembled by Boston Lawyer Lawrence Cohen and New York Lawyer Lester Lazarus, both Goldfine regulars. The information was polished in statement form by 1) Boston Lawyer Samuel Sears, dropped in 1954 as counsel to the Senate subcommittee investigating the Army-McCarthy fracas after it was discovered that he had made statements highly favorable to McCarthy, and 2) Washington's Robb. attorney for ousted Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott, for ousted Federal Communications Commissioner Richard Mack, and Government attorney in the successful 1954 ouster action...
...microscope they seem placid things. The slimy protoplasm inside them sometimes streams slowly, but little other action is visible. This quietude is an illusion. The typical cell, which may be only one twenty-five-thousandth of an inch long, is aboil with chemical action. It is building thousands of complex compounds and tearing other thousands to bits. It selects nutrients that it wants, and in some mysterious way absorbs them selectively through its outer wall. Tiny, mysterious bodies move through its protoplasm, and inside the nucleus reside the powerful chromosomes, which most geneticists believe are like a chemical oligarchy controlling...
...Francis H.C. Crick in England went a step farther. DNA, they said, is a double helix with two spirally rising chains of linked atomic groups and a series of horizontal members, like steps, connecting the two spirals. This molecular model, deduced mostly from X-ray diffraction photos, seemed complex and unlikely, but geneticists rejoiced when they heard about it. It was just what they" needed to explain many perplexing things that they had been observing for years (see diagram...
...main argument for keeping the act on the books is that defense equipment has become so complex, and changes so fast, that past production and cost experience are not enough to forecast and avoid exorbitant profits. The Government, say renegotiation advocates, needs a watchdog agency to take a long legal second look at every major defense contract. While contractors go along with this, they argue that renegotiation decisions are so capricious that what are considered normal profits for one contractor are called excessive for another...
Died. Andrija Stampar, M.D., 69, president of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, who helped set up the U.N.'s World Health Organization, served as chairman (1948) of the first World Health Assembly, ran it with what one delegate called a "unanimity complex," bringing all considerations to the personal level with such stock remarks as "If you have confidence in your chairman you will adopt this item" and "I would be the most unhappy man in the world if the assembly rejected this proposal"; after long illness; in Zagreb, Yugoslavia...