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...implicate Cohn might get a break, and of offering immunity to "gangsters and racketeers in order to get perjured evidence against me." And he referred to "a prominent case recently concluded" in which Morgenthau "obtained the sentencing of all the defendants except those from whom he sought to extract something unfavorable concerning me. To whip these defendants in line, he has 'deferred' their sentences with promises of leniency if they play his game, and threats of long jail terms if they do not." Cohn did not indicate whether the "prominent case" was the United Dye scandal...
Exams, which will precede all the above maneuvers, are expected to extract at least three hours of everyone's time between now and Friday. Students wishing to discover the results of their ordeal before the registrar sends out the impersonal, IBM style grade reports, should try the Harvard system of slipping a self-addressed post card into their blue book. It usually brings results...
Armour regularly shipped barrels of calf thymuses ("neck sweetbreads") to Szent-Gyorgyi in Woods Hole. His rooms atop the Marine Biological Laboratory building on Main Street began to overflow with centrifuges used to extract submicroscopic quantities of promine and retine. More recently, Dr. Szent-Gyorgyi and his colleagues, Dr. Andrew Hegyeli and Jane A. McLaughlin, have found a cheaper and more abundant source: human urine. So, at nearby Otis Air Force Base, six latrines have special urinals, which yield from 60 to 100 liters a day for Dr. Szent-Gyorgyi's research...
...chatted idly with their colleagues, trying to beat the summer heat with bottles of cold beer, which they bring to tento mura by the case. When word was flashed by walkie-talkie radio from the agent inside the P.M.'s foyer, the press corps rushed out to extract the news from Ikeda's latest visitor...
Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews. A second absorbing volume produced by artful questioners who extract provocative ideas on art and life from Boris Pasternak, Ezra Pound, Katherine Anne Porter and other creators...