Word: crystallizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Above the clink of crystal goblets and the beat of a twist tune wafted shreds and snippets of conversation. "Looks like Pierre made a party on the way." "No, darling, these models don't have a thing on underneath. They don't have anything to hide." "Look at Ethel go! Where does she get the energy?" "Look, McCone is actually smiling!" "I would love to see Allen Dulles twist." Floating among the crowd of 300 smartly-dressed people was the hostess, a tawny blonde, her hair bouffant, her gown a new Cardin, her perfume by Dior...
...complain of only a single thing: the production was so good that the weakness in the play itself shone out crystal clear...
...Crystal Pipe Organ. Iowa-born Chemist Craig, 57, went to the Rockefeller in 1933 and did a monumental job separating the ingredients of ergot. World War II prompted Dr. Craig to switch to a group of chemicals that the armed forces were studying as substitutes for quinine. Among them was chloroquine, and Dr. Craig needed to know whether a chloroquine preparation was reasonably pure or contaminated with too many related chemicals...
Working with Technician Otto Post, he put together an intricate array of glassware that looks like a crystal pipe organ for Queen Mab's palace. It makes no music, but clicks monotonously every 30 to 120 seconds when it tilts to pour off some of its mixture. This C.C.D. machine works on the principle of liquid-liquid extraction: two substances are not likely to be equally soluble in two different solvents. And if the solvents are not soluble in each other, they can be separated. Whatever is dissolved in them will be separated also...
Aside from the large uncut diamond, termed "the center-piece of the collection" and "the largest and most perfect diamond crystal of its size in the world," the gems taken in 1962 proved to be replaceable on the open market. The theft made only a small dent in the Harvard mineralogical collection...