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...many mysteries about muscles is the fact that they rarely develop cancer. So, by the arcane logic of scientific research, what appears to be a hopeful line of cancer research is being conducted by one of the world's greatest authorities on muscle. He is Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 69, the Hungarian-born Nobel prizewinner* who is head of the Institute for Muscle Research in Woods Hole, Mass...
Clue in the Neck. Dr. Szent-Gyorgyi (pronounced St. Georgie) entered the cancer field almost by chance. After he fled Hungary's Communist control in 1947, he was able to resume at Woods Hole his long work on muscle. Concentrating on one of the commonest of muscular diseases, myasthenia gravis, he had a clue. Sometimes a victim of "MG" does better after his thymus gland is removed. Searching for the explanation, Szent-Gyorgyi, who has a Cambridge Ph.D. in biochemistry besides his M.D., spent years doing delicate chemical dissections of the thymus glands of calves, supplied by Chicago...
Being dean has its rewards, but universities also need presidents. Last week: > Kenneth Sanford Pitzer, 48, was inaugurated as Rice University's third president at a three-day academic festival marking Rice's soth year and attended by 27 famed scholars, ranging from Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Gyorgyi through Anthropologist Margaret Mead to Hiscorian Arnold Toynbee. Pitzer had been dean of chemistry at the University of California's Berkeley campus, and before that director of research...
Since current politics are occupied with current problems, he continued, only a scientific mentality can meet the problems posed by science which need permanent solutions. Szent-Gyorgyi suggested that citizens in a democracy and politicians meeting in international conclave should bear the same attitude ". . . a neutral mind; a cool head, unbiased by sentiment, hatred, fear, or profit, with an uncompromising intellectual honesty...
...also endorsed the idea of a Congressional "scientific lobby" first proposed by physicist Leo Szilard at the University last December. Szent-Gyorgyi said he hopes to meet with Szilard for a discussion in Washington this weekend...