Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looked like the gangland variety, which usually defies solution. This time, though, the killers had not displayed their customary efficiency in disposing of the corpse. Moreover, Queens County Assistant District Attorney James C. Mosley was convinced that they had made other errors too. In 1967, he brought a Long Island Mafia lieutenant, John ("Sonny") Franzese, and three members of his "family" to trial for Rupolo's murder...
From whom else could pre-mechamcal civilizations have learned to move the stones for the pyramids or the Mayan cities or the great carved heads of Easter Island? After all, asks Däniken, are not the legends of many lands filled with stories of godlike visitors from the sky, riding in fiery chariots or on iron wings, arriving like "birds of thunder"? Indeed, the book's only illustration is drawing of an ancient stone carving found in Mexico in 1935. It looks remarkably like a figure bent over an instrument panel in a space capsule...
Last week 202 specialists in half a dozen sciences met at the University of Rhode Island for a roundup conference on the progress and problems connected with mining the seas for drugs. Almost to a man, they complained of lack of funds-a shortage intensified by recent cutbacks in governmental grants-and proclaimed their support of Senator Warren Magnuson's bill to set up a National Institute of Marine Medicine and Pharmacology. In speech after speech they pointed out that the vast majority of all known forms of animal life are found in the sea, which they expect...
Esoteric Substances. In fact, six drug companies were represented at the Rhode Island conference. Some are already active in the field, testing such esoteric substances as paolin I, an antibacterial compound, and paolin II, an antiviral agent. Both were extracted from the juices of the abalone by Dr. Chen Pien Li at the National Institutes of Health. Similar extracts from quahaugs (thick-shelled clams) have been found to be active against some forms of cancer in mice. So far, chemicals from shellfish appear to have only moderate potency, but the sea offers an almost infinite variety of other potential sources...
Natomas Co. would not seem to be the ideal speculative stock. About 80% of its revenues come from the lackluster shipping industry. With its 37% stake in oil concessions in the ocean off the Indonesian island of Java, and a 68% stake in a concession off Sumatra, the company may yet become an important oil producer. But, as officials of San Francisco-based Natomas concede, no one knows how much oil will be found in either field...