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...Under the leadership of Director Cornelius P. Rhoads (TIME cover, June 27, 1949), Sloan-Kettering had already begun down-the-line testing, and by nowr has gone through 20,000 compounds. But 100,000 more are available, and as many more can easily be synthesized or extracted from plants, fungi and antibiotic "beers." This was a nationwide job for NCI. Along with a score of private institutes and university laboratories, the chemical and drug industries were enlisted: Brooklyn's Charles Pfizer & Co. is at work under a $1,200,000 contract; Indianapolis' Eli Lilly & Co. does its share...
...thirds of the carafes examined were "grossly unhygienic"-meaning that in many there were the partly decomposed bodies of insects, or "islands" of algae and fungi. Often, the walls were slimy. Most had a stale odor, and "a few were literally foul." When the bacteriologists went to work, they found that in 22% of the carafes the water contained colon bacilli, and no fewer than 69% held Staphylococcus aureus-including at least one of the deadly, penicillin-resistant strains that have caused wholesale epidemics and killed babies in some hospital nurseries (TIME, March...
Birth Boom. What Newsday's readers got was Huxley's pessimistic opinion that his fearful Brave New World is indeed close at hand. It was not until the Year of Our Ford 632 (according to the 1932 novel) that babies were to be grown in laboratories like fungi, happy citizens were to be conditioned by sleep teaching and there was to be no pain, no disease and-theoretically-no independent thought. Now, says Huxley, "The nightmare of total organization . . . has emerged from the safe, remote future." Main factor: the birth boom that has jumped the world...
Built and operated by the Tisch Hotel chain (the Traymore and Ambassador in Atlantic City, NJ.; the Belmont Plaza in Manhattan), the Americana offers such inducements as a huge, cone-shaped $300,000 terrarium in the center of the lobby (filled with orchids and rare fungi) and four restaurants with the help dressed to fit the decor, e.g., waitresses in Rose Marie operetta costumes for the Dominion of Canada Coffee House, waiters in Argentine cowboy pants for the Gaucho Steak House...
...diseases in which they are not likely to be of any use. Either way the antibiotics kill off many of the bacteria normally found in a healthy intestinal tract. In so doing, they disturb the balance of nature and leave the depopulated gut as a breeding ground for yeastlike fungi, especially one called Monilla (or Candida) albicans...