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George B. Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus who was special assistant for science and technology for President Eisenhower, yesterday cited several predictions made by the government over the last 30 years which have proved to be inaccurate, adding, "This is just another one of these red herring stories...
...would probably be a good idea to stay around Cambridge this weekend. Of course, if you have something really important to do, you may leave, but don't blame me if you miss a great football game or your Ernie Roberts breakfast of herring, prunes, and sausage and eggs, with your favorite Quincy House maypo...
...conventional measure of economic development is "a complete red herring," Joan Robinson, professor emeritus of economics from Cambridge University, said yesterday before an overflow audience in Emerson...
Visual Purple. Stoeckenius began the work that led to his discovery in 1965 while serving as an associate professor at New York City's Rockefeller University. Studying the structure of a microbe called Halobacterium halobium -the organism that gives red herring their distinctive color-he found a purple pigment that was chemically similar to "visual purple," a pigment in the retinas of animal and human eyes. The similarity led Stoeckenius and his co-workers to suspect that the pigment helped the organism use light for its life processes...
...Oswald cover-up that failed [Nov. 3]. How do we find out who else covered up important information about the J.F.K. assassination unless we reopen the investigation into the assassination? Why should we have to wait until A.D. 2039 for the answers? Or is this FBI confession another red herring to divert our attention once more from the truth...