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...raises the specter of genetic warfare-one nation permanently weakening the people of another by infecting them with potent lab-made viruses carrying damaging hereditary material. Experiments have already shown that viral infections can make fruit flies fatally sensitive to such ordinary substances as carbon dioxide. M.I.T. Bacteriologist Salvador Luria speculates that some day a diabolical individual may be able to concoct a virus that renders men equally susceptible to specific substances. Then, says Luria, he could threaten to release the material unless the world did his bidding...
...encouraging those who signed the petition to write the President and explain their objections to the Administration's policy in Vietnam in greater detail. Any more detailed statement by the leaders of the committee could not be representative of all the signers of the petition, according to Salvador E. Luria, professor of Biology at M.I.T...
...Luria said that the Group's future plans include circulation and publication of a petition in which academicians who voted for Johnson in 1964 could publicly disassociate themselves from the Administration's policy in Vietnam...
...Salvador Luria professor of biology, Boston University
...letting his own company be scrapped. He has brought big company management to a fragmented, ruggedly individualistic industry that was created by penniless Jewish immigrants who scooped up junk in back alleys, made fortunes overnight and handed down their small businesses from father to son. Ogden's Luria research department, the industry's first and biggest, is now testing a contraption to reduce a whole auto to egg-sized pellets that could be easily stoked into oxygen converters or other furnaces. In a business long suffering from an inferiority complex, Ablon has been able to attract graduates from...