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...most unnecessary thing I've ever said." Indeed, Shriver's ebullient optimism is one of the more promising commodities of the McGovern campaign. "It's terrific," Shriver kept saying, "I'm learning a graydeal [a favorite word]. Here, look at my issues book [thick loose-leaf binder]; it's as good as any master's course." In a swing that spotted the nation from Portland, Me., and Charleston, W. Va., to Grand Rapids and the West Coast, Shriver's routine never varied: he would come down the ramp of his chartered 727 wearing...
Latin America poses other worries besides heroin for U.S. narcotics agents, and more serious ones than the tons of marijuana that are smuggled across the border daily. Along the continent's Andean spine, the peasants of Bolivia and highland Peru, who have long chewed the coca leaf for pleasure, are now selling more and more of it as a cash crop?cocaine. The drug, which is psychologically if not physically addictive, has become popular in Europe and in parts of the U.S. Ingersoll worries that "in the long run, the cocaine dilemma is going to be more serious than heroin...
Rice that looks and tastes like wheat? A plant that yields both tomatoes and potatoes? Strong Turkish tobacco that burns as smoothly as mild Virginia leaf? Such unlikely hybrids may now be a little closer to reality. Last week an Atomic Energy Commission researcher announced that he had achieved a long-elusive goal: the successful fusion of two different species of plant cells into a hybrid that has characteristics of both its "parents" and is capable of reproduction...
...common plants by sexual means-fertilizing one plant with the pollen of the other-but many species will simply not breed sexually with others. Carlson, borrowing techniques recently developed by scientists in England and Japan, accomplished the trick with individual cells. First he treated cells from each kind of leaf with an enzyme that dissolves their protective cellulose walls but leaves the rest of the cell intact. Then he placed the two different types of cells in a solution of sodium nitrate, forced them together by spinning them in a centrifuge and, out of a total of about 10 million...
...herself invented it (Genesis 3:7). The late Gypsy Rose Lee listed it as one of her favorite indoor sports. Leslie Uggams and Mrs. Hubert Humphrey do it regularly-and so do nearly 50 million other American women. Nonetheless, home sewing was scarcely worth a fig leaf until the late '60s. Today it is a $3 billion business, up from $1.3 billion just seven years ago, thanks to a happy combination of factors. Coinciding with rising costs and declining quality of retail clothing, there came a new widespread interest in creative handicrafts. At the same time, improved sewing machines...