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...onetime Wunderkind of McCarthy-committee fame was accused on seven counts of tampering with grand jury witnesses in order to quash a 1959 indictment against four swindlers in the $5,000,000 stock defrauding of United Dye & Chemical Corp. Cohn faced up to 35 years in prison and $26,000 in fines. During 17 days of testimony by 67 witnesses, two of the swindlers swore that they paid $50,000 to duck indictment, and they said that one-third of the money went to Cohn. Nearing the end of its deliberation, the jury reportedly stood eleven to one for convicting...
Died. Gerhard Domagk, 68, German chemist who in 1932 discovered that sulfonamides cured infection, thereby creating the first "wonder drugs"; of a heart attack; in Konigsfeld, West Germany. Domagk was research director for I. G. Farben when he found some textile dyes stopped infections in mice, successfully applied a dye to his daughter's infected finger, later isolated the active ingredient, a sulfa compound he called prontosil-an achievement that won him a 1939 Nobel Prize, which Hitler, piqued with the Nobel committee at the time, forced him to refuse...
...Bible was reproduced by what Bob Chollar, the company's head of research, calls photochromic micro images, or PCMI. The film has none of the silver halide grains that are the vital element in conventional photographic film; instead there is a very thin layer of a dye that darkens rapidly when exposed to ultraviolet light. The resulting picture has no "grain." Images of Bible pages projected in ultraviolet were reduced by lenses and focused one by one on the dye. After each exposure the film was moved mechanically to array the tiny pages in close-packed rows. This miracle...
...machines makes an inevitable mistake, the unwanted page can be erased by one quick flash of yellow light. A new page can be printed by ultraviolet in the same place. The observer can watch both erasure and printing in green light, which does not affect the sensitive dye...
...machine, and a probe with many electrical contacts in its tip is pressed against each circuit. Currents flowing through the contacts check out every element of the circuit, and if it fails to meet all requirements,' the probe marks it for rejection with a speck of dye. Then another machine makes checkerboard scratches between the circuits, and they are separated into "dice" by breaking the brittle disk along the scratches...