Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threatened. Looking for a way to remove the excess iron, the Rockefeller scientists turned to bacteria and fungi. In the course of billions of years, these tiny organisms have evolved complex molecules that gather up iron essential for their survival. The researchers developed similar compounds-chelating agents (from the Greek word for claw)- of their own. Injectable chemicals of this kind have been available for some time, but the Rockefeller team hopes their work will lead to an inexpensive oral drug...
...sharp-trading stereotypes of the Philadelphia lawyer, the Greek shipowner and the Swiss banker must now be added a new model of shrewdness: the Russian grain buyer. In the celebrated "Great Grain Robbery" of 1972, Soviet agricultural agents bought up whole shiploads of U.S. wheat, managing not only to secure it at bargain prices but also to get the U.S. Government to foot part of the bill through a farm subsidy program. Now, much to Washington's embarrassment, the Russians have struck-and stung-again...
Claudius Ptolemy, the second-century Greek mathematician whose word on the heavens was law for some 1,400 years, has long been considered the king of ancient astronomers. Now an iconoclastic physicist is seeking to dethrone him. After an eight-year study of the Syntaxis, Ptolemy's 13-volume collection of celestial observations, Robert R. Newton of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University has concluded that Ptolemy faked his figures. In his just-published The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy (Johns Hopkins University Press; $22.50), Newton minces no words: "Ptolemy is not the greatest astronomer of antiquity...
...most famous movie, "Never on Sunday" was her credo, but Melina Mercouri is now on the streets seven days a week-campaigning for election to the Greek parliament. In 1974 Actress-Activist Mercouri was defeated as a Socialist candidate from Piraeus, which includes the red-light district in her 1960 film. Back on the hustings again, she is confident of victory this time. Says Mercouri, 52: "They trust me not as a star, but rather as a woman with dynamism who knows how to fight, how to go on strike. I want to be a thorn in parliament...
BORN. To Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, 26, a law student at the University of New Mexico and daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, and David Townsend, 29, teacher of Greek at St. John's College: their first child, a daughter, and Rose Kennedy's first great-grandchild; in Santa Fe, N. Mex. Name: Meaghan Kennedy Townsend...