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Soviet officials are also impressed. Says one: "We do not have entirely fond memories of Ambassador Kennan himself [the Kremlin declared him persona non grata after he denounced Stalinism in 1953], but we regard the formation of his institute as a positive development." Indeed, the Russians feel that in the Institut Imyeni Kennana the U.S. finally has a worthy counterpart to Moscow's U.S.A. Institute-a think tank for Americanologists in the Soviet Union...
...regal, a Grimm heroine who has all of Europe wondering what she will do next, and hoping against hope that she will only settle for Prince Charles. (She will not, because the Prince of Wales cannot marry a Roman Catholic.) Just now, Caroline is studying at Paris' elite Institut d'Etudes Politiques, and she is strictly chaperoned by Grace. "Take one look at the girl. Can you blame her?" asks a sympathetic friend. Caroline fairly smolders whenever she gets the chance, earning admiring appraisals from Parisians or revealing almost total décolletage at a disco...
Jean-Pierre Berlan is with the Institut-National de la Recherche Agronomique in Paris, and was a research fellow at Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley. He is working on a book on Californian agriculture...
...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, 57, of New York's Rockefeller...
Three years ago, researchers at the Gulf South Research Institute in New Iberia, La., found that the strange, tanklike armadillos common to the Southwest were the only animals that shared man's natural susceptibility to leprosy. Now a team of scientists from Gulf, the University of Hawaii and the Republic of Zaïre's Institut Médical Evangélique report that this chance discovery has paid off. The researchers report that a single nine-banded armadillo that died recently at Gulf yielded some 300 trillion leprosy bacilli-good news for medical researchers who have been...