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...real underwriter of the Oreclone issue did not appear on the stock registration: Norman Pinsker of New York, who told the SEC that the underwriting was originally his "deal." But because he is facing charges of violating the SEC law by selling unregistered stock in a phony cancer cure, he arranged to have the underwriter of record appear as a Washington firm in which his brother-in-law had originally had a one-third interest. This firm has the fancy title of Investment Bankers of America, Inc., a name confusingly close to the august Investment Bankers Association of America, also...
Slowly the fuel is cured to a rubbery solid, tightly filling the casing. When the cure is complete, the booster is lifted out of its hole and carried off for attachment of nozzles and other final items. Then it is stored in an insulated building or truck, and left to cool evenly...
...Heat to Cure. The plants that make Minuteman boosters are also reflections of solid-fuel simplicity. There is little machine work; most of the engine's comparatively few parts come prefabricated. Biggest part of the job is filling the casing with fuel, which is a secret liquid plastic compound mixed with crystalline potassium perchlorate to supply oxygen. The mixing is done in a plant that is mostly underground. A crane running on rails sets the empty booster casing upright in a square hole. Then an odd-looking little building mounted on rails moves over each casing and carefully pours...
...with griseofulvin, he found the antibiotic as effective as the conventional potassium iodide treatment. Dr. González-Ochoa's conclusion: the idea that griseofulvin is useful only against surface infections is too glib; it should also be "tested against internal fungal infections, for some of which no cure is now known...
...self-confident commanders of the Laotian army and the aggressive young Laotian politicians who call themselves the Committee for the Defense of the National Interest, Phoui's turn to neutralism was weak-kneed behavior. They agreed with Phoui's basic diagnosis, but not with his cure; they favored junta government, openly allied to the West. They had the full support of 52-year-old, Paris-educated King Savang Vatthana, a shy Buddhist who took over the throne only last fall upon the death of his polygamous, bon vivant father (TIME, Nov. 9). Resenting his constitutional position...