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Richard Nixon is determined to extract some concessions from North Viet Nam in exchange for U.S. disengagement from the war. To do this, he believes, he must convince the other side that his domestic position is solid. Further, he must make his American critics believe that they cannot rush him. The President is having trouble on both counts, but not for want of trying...
...usually means explaining that a program is under discussion, a decision has not yet been made, an event is being planned. The reporters want to know why, what it all means, who said what to whom. Ziegler rarely tells them. Last week it took reporters two full days to extract from him the admission that the President had had a say in the dropping of charges against the Green Berets accused of murder-even though it was obvious that no such decision could have been made without Nixon's approval...
...principal argument of Arlen's book is that: "Television is not merely a box dispensing such commodities as 'information' or 'entertainment,' but something we are doing to ourselves." You can't simply praise or denounce the dissemination of information. But TV viewers extract their satisfactions in the pains of paranoia, and less dramatically, in an inexplicable feeling of frustration. Television may show us things we have never seen, sounds we have never heard, faces only imagined and opinions hardly imagined, but it makes its offering stillborn, draining off the wonder or outrage. We are made poorer by its dilating cosmopolitanism...
...into jars filled with alcohol. Ashore, within a few hours, some were quick-frozen, others were dried, and all were flown to Lederle's labs at Pearl River, N.Y. There the tedious and time-consuming process of searching for medicinally useful compounds began with the preparation of crude extracts. It will continue through a variety of screening tests that will determine whether the extract is active against such familiar microbes as the staphylococcus and other causes of human disease...
...extract proves to be active, the next stage of testing will be more difficult: isolating the individual ingredient responsible for the activity. Even more difficult is the task of determining the chemical identity of the isolated substance. Once that is done, it must be tested in animals to find out whether its germ-killing powers outweigh whatever undesirable side effects it may have. If the compound proves both safe and effective enough to be tested in man, the laboratory chemists will face the task of either synthesizing it or using the natural product as the base for a semisynthetic drug...