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...Europe is home to some of the biggest biotech groups in the world. GSK Biologicals, for instance, which has headquarters just 15 miles outside Brussels, supplies about a quarter of all vaccines used throughout the world. "Europe's opposition to GMOs is a backlash against science," says Willy De Greef, secretary general for Europabio, the European biotech lobby. "We have a lot of catching up to do. While the U.S., Brazil, India and China have forged ahead in genetic engineering, we have lost a generation of good scientists." (See TIME's interview with José Manuel Barroso...
While Belgian and Canadian flags fluttered overhead, Lieut. General Maurice Pope, the Canadian ambassador, turned over the gift as a "reinforcement of the defense of liberty in Western Europe." Then a crane swung a 40-mm. self-propelled gun through the air. Colonel Eugene de Greef, Belgian defence minister, turned to Pope and said: "[A strong army] would be above our powers if we were not effectively helped by American nations and notably by your country...
First ten women players chosen were Helen Jacobs, Sarah Palfrey Fabyan Carolin Babcock, Dorothy Andrus. Baroness Maud Levi. Jane Sharp. Marjorie Morrill Painter, Mary Greef Harris, Marjorie Sachs, Catherine Wolf...
...final, Miss Jacobs' victory lacked eclat, served to increase the un- reasonable antipathy with which U. S. galleries regard her. She won in 1932 when Mrs. Moody was not entered. With Mrs. Moody out of the field again last week, Miss Jacobs dropped only one set, to Mary Greef Harris of Kansas City, gave demure little Sarah Palfrey of Brookline, Mass, a lesson in the final, 6-1, 6-4. More spectacular than the champion's anticipated achievements were those of others in the National Women's Championship...
...experts who had seen her beat Dorothy Andrus Burke, Mary Greef and Joan Ridley of England at Seabright last month, what dark, 20-year-old little Carolyn Babcock of Los Angeles did last week was exciting and satisfying. To the rest of the gallery which had never heard of her before, it was amazing. She had a hard match in the second round against Mrs. Burke which she won 10-8, 10-8, but her first real test came two rounds later against Mrs. Lawrence Harper who was runner-up in 1930, when Helen Wills Moody stayed in California. They...