Word: klotz
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Farther north, in Durban, a leading coastal resort, Mayor Henry Klotz was pondering his status as an outcast from President P.W. Botha's National Party. Last month Klotz balked when party colleagues on the city council reserved two of Durban's best beaches for whites only. The beaches were the scene of confrontations between blacks and whites last summer. After his refusal to endorse the segregation plan, Klotz was suspended for "acting disloyally and contrary to the interests" of the party. Declaring that he was "duty bound to act in the interests of all the citizens," the mayor resigned...
...except perhaps Merce Cunningham, is as precise and sophisticated as Robbins about the appearance of his dances. This little romp takes place in a bright, white envelope. The performers wear Florence Klotz's body suits in black (Sean Lavery), white (Ib Andersen) or thrilling primary colors (red for Kyra Nichols, blue for Maria Calegari, lighter blue for the five additional men and pollen-yellow for the female corps of five). With marvelous physical mastery, they whirl and prance, graceful and playful as gods. There is neither poetry nor memory here, just an endless sunny...
Eleven Western reporters, including members of a U.S. television crew, squeezed into a cramped Moscow apartment one day last week for a rare and risky event: a press conference by three Jewish refuseniks, would-be emigrants to Israel. Their message, as delivered by Boris Klotz, 34, a wiry mathematician: "There are thousands of Jews in the Moscow area alone who want to go to Israel. The authorities tell some of these people that they have insufficient motive, and others that East-West relations are too poor...
...Gene Age benefits from an insider's understanding of the industry. Lynn Klotz is an executive of Bio Technics International, a genetic engineering firm located in North Cambridge. (Klotz was Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Harvard when recombinant DNA research first began.) His knowledge brings some surprising insights: for example, the commercial production of a drug can often be speeded up if scientists patent the manufacturing process. The sale of penicillin, by contrast, was held back 15 years because its discoverer, Sir Alexander Fleming, had deemed it ignoble to patent the process...
Despite an occasional felicitous phrase--enzymes, for example, are described as "nature's answer to the blast furnace and the 10-ton press"--The Gene Age reads like a scrapbook of competent but unexceptional magazine articles. Sylvester and Klotz write clearly and chattily, but they lack a unifying theme. And their sections on the science of genetic engineering suffer from dull graphics poorly integrated with the text. Even the most sparkling writing could never explain molecular genetics without a good set of pictures; DNA for Beginners is thus far better for anyone interested in genetics out of pure curiosity...