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Molecular genetics, fastest-growing branch of all, uses the newest techniques of biochemistry to explore the extraordinary molecular structures that exist in every living cell and control its growth and reproduction. Hopes are high that this science will soon come to a complete understanding of life's basic chemical processes. But for all the activity that was reported at the Hague congress, there has been no important breakthrough. Progress reports were filled with the promise of discoveries yet to come. A sampling...
Electric shock is still the fastest and most effective treatment for depression. But psychiatrists prefer to try the drugs first, because shock so often produces temporary memory loss and confused thinking. Dr. Kline hopes not only to reduce the need for shock, but to speed up the energizers more conveniently with doses of 5-HTP taken by mouth, instead of injection...
Some keener competition is abuilding for Merrill Lynch. Francis I. du Pont, Wall Street's fastest growing brokerage house (92 branches), last week announced plans to acquire Chicago's A. C. Allyn & Co. (24 branches). The du Pont firm was set up in 1931 by Francis du Pont, a great-grandson of Eleuthère Iréneé du Pont, founder of the Du Pont chemical empire, and grew big by catering to Wilmington's richest carriage trade. Now headed by Francis' son, Edmond du Pont, 57, the firm long ago broadened its sights beyond...
...part of the U.S. financial world until the postwar housing boom came along, turning a nation in which the majority of families had been tenants into one in which two-thirds of all families are homeowners. Since then, S & Ls have prospered most where homes are going up the fastest. Four of the five largest associations are in Los Angeles, Pennsylvania, where it all began, has the most associations (798), followed by Illinois (598), Ohio (571), Maryland (419), New Jersey (410), and California...
...fish so much as brushes against either of the bird's mandibles, the beak closes in as little as nineteen-thousandths of a second. By contrast, the human eye takes forty-thousandths of a second to blink when startled. This reflex makes the wood stork the fastest fisherman on record, and certainly gives it the fastest jaws in the drawling South...