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Holder Molecules. To confirm his hypothesis, Koshland and two young Berkeley colleagues-Dan R. Storm and Kenneth Neet-devised an experiment of classical simplicity. It involved the common chemicals ethyl alcohol and acetic acid, which, in the presence of a catalyst, quickly combine to form an aromatic compound called ethyl acetate (without a catalyst, the reaction occurs very slowly). Instead of using standard catalysts, however, the scientists chemically locked both molecules into various synthetic ring-shaped, larger molecules called "holders," which are in effect chemical vises. After many attempts, they hit upon a holder that gripped the ethyl alcohol...
...basically applaud Mr. Agnew." he said. Helms would not confirm his appointment because "I would rather anything be announced by the office concerned...
...States. The success of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese has shown that the United States does not have the strength to deliver on its promises of protection to the puppet regimes through which it manipulates internal politics in countries of the Third World. An American withdrawal would confirm this paramount lesson of Vietnam, and it is thus understandable that President Nixon and his advisors have "ruled out" the possibility of an abrupt, immediate withdrawal...
...planners unpronounceably call MBFR (for mutual balanced force reductions). Reason: the ministers thought that the Soviets might show themselves receptive in order to ensure the participation of NATO countries in a pet Soviet project, the European Security Conference. The Soviet goal in such a conference is undoubtedly to confirm existing borders in Europe and to undermine the rationale for NATO by offering guarantees against aggression in Europe. But the ministers had badly misreckoned. In a swift riposte, Tass, the Soviet government news agency, described the idea of mutual troop reductions as "absolutely unacceptable to the Socialist countries...
Communist bands are still troubling towns and highways south of Phnom-Penh, but the allied quarantine of the coast may have foreclosed Hanoi's hopes of staking out new sanctuaries in the lower half of Cambodia. Attacks on the Mekong towns above Phnom-Penh confirm that most of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong are spilling into the northeast and northwest quadrants of the country. Their temporary destination may be the quiet shores of Tonle Sap Lake, 70 miles north of Phnom-Penh. There they would be near the Cambodian rice bowl and a rich supply of fish, while...