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...mean Goldfinger. Really. But he could extract the sense of a place so terribly well. He asked me to play Dr. No. Not Bond-Dr. No. How wonderful. I wish I could have...
...such cases of sterility, Swedish researchers headed by Uppsala's Dr. Carl Gemzell have devised injections of gonad-stimulating hormones extracted from pituitary glands obtained at autopsy. In many cases, ten to 15 days of injections over a month or two induced ovulation, and the women bore one or more normal babies. In Sweden there were two sets of quads. While the Swedish research was progressing, an Italian endocrinologist, Dr. Pietro Donini, began extracting gonad-stimulating hormones from the urine of women who had passed the menopause. It takes three gallons of urine to produce enough of the extract...
Both the Swedish and Italian preparations are indeed promising for eventual cure of infertility in a small proportion of women. The Swedish extract has even been shown to restore fertility in a man who had lost it because of an operation for pituitary cancer. But there is some danger that the injections may promote the growth of ovarian cysts, and have other harmful side effects. Nobody is preparing the pituitary extract for general use. Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif., has sole rights to make and market Pergonal in the U.S., but it will take the FDA months or years...
...majority of the justices agreed with White, and the Supreme Court last week declared the vague Washington oaths unconstitutional. Noting that the court had upheld a similar Maryland statute, dissenting Justice Tom Clark found his colleagues' change of heart "unfortunate." Justice White's worries, he complained, "extract more sunbeams from cucumbers than did Gulliver's mad scientists...
...their output, but only slightly. Black Africa is making its first major effort to expand its mining and marketing; mines in Sierra Leone and Liberia have increased production. For the first time in 56 years, De Beers has reopened its big Old De Beers mine, using modern equipment to extract stones that once were thought uneconomic to mine. It has also helped to bankroll a Texan named Sammy Collins (TIME, Nov. 9, 1962), who is digging diamonds from under the sea off the coast of southwest Africa. But no dealer fears that production will ever rise high enough to hold...