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...four carpenters who make up Apple Corps came of age in the '60s. Richard Gougeon served as a maintenance crewman on an admiral's plane during the Viet Nam War. Alex Ghiselin attended Dartmouth, worked for Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign and later as a reporter for the Boston Globe. Ned Krutsky is a strong, silent type who got his education at a small Quaker college and a house in Haight-Ashbury. Jim Locke, son of a lawyer and a college dropout, built his first house from a "hippy-dippy how-to-do-it book...
Biologist Michael Ghiselin: $212,000 in 1981. A specialist in evolutionary biology and author of the acclaimed The Triumph of the Darwinian Method (1969), Ghiselin had resigned from the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley to devote more time to writing and research even before receiving his award. Says he: "I sold my house and was living in draconian parsimony. This award gave me the resources for going places and doing research. I was upset by the award at first-it was hard to deal with after coping with adversity for so many years. But I have...
...Ghiselin has used some of the funds to travel to coral reefs in the Pacific, and to "fool around" in the Darwin archives at Cambridge University. In fact, Ghiselin decided to give Cambridge $5,000 to help preserve the archives, and he also donated $10,000 to the University of Utah, where he was a visiting scholar, for a series of lectures on evolution. Says Ghiselin: "I've become sort of a philanthropist myself. It allows me to share the wealth...
...Manhattan's Columbia University Medical Center, Dr. Alexander D. Ghiselin had given 44 victims of seasonal and non-seasonal allergic "wet noses" (but not skin rashes), a three-week course of Anthallan capsules. Forty of the patients were relieved of 25% to 100% of their misery for as long as eight months after treatment. The drug was developed, after 25 years of experiment, by Pharmacologist Walter S. Loewe, who came to the U.S. from Heidelberg in 1934, now teaches at the University of Utah...
...ordinary patients, Drs. Stewart, Hoffman & Ghiselin operate the moving picture camera at a standard speed of 16 frames a second, or 32 frames for the cycle. For unusually thick patients, through whom x-rays do not penetrate easily, the operators slow the camera twelve or eight frames a second. Thin people can stand 24 frames a second. The four chambers of their hearts then can be seen contracting on the projection screen...