Word: heir
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...creations. They take in and use nutrients, resist biological attackers, reproduce and produce the products that their host organisms need in order to exist. Knowledge of the structural and functional organization of cells is essential to the understanding and control of most of the diseases to which man is heir. Last week Sweden's Karolinska Institute! honored the three men whose work has provided scientists with just such knowledge. The $125,000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Dr. Albert Claude, 75, of the Free University of Brussels' Institut Jules Bordet; Dr. Christian R. de Duve...
Love Affair. Ethiopia's rases (feudal lords) in 1916 chose Haile Selassie to be regent and heir to Empress Zauditu. Fourteen years later, when the Empress died suddenly, he was crowned the 255th Emperor of the Menelik line, which, legend claims, sprang more than 2,500 years ago from the celebrated love affair between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. For the next 44 years he ruled unchallenged, except for the Italian occupation and for a brief and abortive palace coup at the end of 1960. During his reign, the Emperor demanded all the obsequiousness due absolute power...
...last openly multi-national state before the Soviet Union began to try to hold peoples together with new ways and hopes. Austria's ways and hopes were long past their prime in 1914, when the war that finished them began with a nationalist Serb's assasination of the heir to the Austrian throne. The empire's decline was slow and gradual, and so was the rise of new ideas incompatible with it, like the right to national self-determination. But the war that made these changes official was sudden, bloody, traumatic. It gave people who had some sympathy with...
Jerry Ford, the Omaha adoptee turned President, looked across his desk last week at Nelson Rockefeller, the dynastic heir to countless millions, and nominated him to be his Vice President, then ribbed him. "You know you are going to have to live in the old Admiral's House," he said. "You can visit your lovely home on Foxhall Road on the weekends." Admiral's House is the drafty 81-year-old home recently consigned to Vice Presidents. Rockefeller has long had his own Washington estate on Foxhall Road...
...teaching and conducting in what is now the Ukrainian city of Lvov. He died at 53 in Karlsbad, where he had gone to take the cure. In death as in life, he was proof of the words that would later be uttered by Richard Wagner's sole male heir, Siegfried: "You don't know how difficult it is being the son of a giant...