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...Wilson's disease, after the doctor who first described it. But by any name it is still one of the most mysterious and devastating defects in the body's complex chemistry. It can be inherited from outwardly healthy parents and involves the metabolism of minute amounts of copper. As recently as 1960, medical textbooks stated: "The course of the disease is inexorably downhill if untreated." Most baffling is the fact that the inherited defect may either produce severe illness within the first year of life, or lie dormant like a slowly ticking time bomb for as long...
...defective gene, the child will not develop the disease, though he may pass on the gene. But if both parents have it, an average of one child out of four will have a deficiency of ceruloplasmin-a little-understood blue component of the blood, in which eight atoms of copper are bound into a large protein molecule. A deficiency of ceruloplasmin leads to a piling up of copper in such sensitive organs as the liver and brain...
...annually through 1965, and to reach it the commissariat "suggests" investment and output levels for each major industry and producer. The theory: if appliance makers can be led to expect a 5½% increase in consumer demand, they will increase production and, in turn, boost the makers of steel, copper, machine tools and other appliance essentials. Those who dance to the government's tune enjoy tax incentives and generous credits from the all-powerful Bank of France. On the other hand, as one planner admits, "any French company bucking the plan would have a very hard time finding money...
Appeals Endured. Harry Oppenheimer is the wealthiest and mightiest businessman in Africa. Besides his global hold over diamonds, Oppenheimer, through the Anglo American Corp. (of which he is also chairman), controls or holds substantial interests in a $2.4 billion empire of 150 gold, copper, uranium, coal, chemical, explosives and banking companies. A member of South Africa's Parliament for ten years, he left politics to run the business after his father's death in 1957. Because he controls South Africa's chief source of foreign exchange, and is a man with an international reputation, the nationalist government...
...current retrospective show at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum is the meeting ground for the ideas of three dead giants: Solomon Guggenheim, the copper-tycoon tastemaker; Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect; and Vasily Kandinsky, the father of abstract expressionism. For patrons making the spiral descent into the museum's terrazzo maelstrom to view the largest collection of Kandinsky oils and watercolors ever assembled, it is almost as if this were the event the three men had had in mind all along...