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...Mitscher said new antibiotics must be found because existing ones lose their effectiveness when used over a long period. Antibiotics now are prepared from soil microorganisms...
Pharmaceutical firms have expressed interest in Mitscher's findings and have approved testing of the plants for possible commercial production of antibiotics, Mitscher said...
...Lester Mitscher, professor of medicinal chemistry, said he began his research ten years ago because American Indians had used such plants to cure diseases...
...corporations, and, with too many of the young, dreams of adventure have been replaced by the haze of pot. Even in war, the brave man is not often truly alone with death. The team supports him, the group succors him. In the Philippine night, during World War II, Admiral Mitscher ordered an entire fleet to turn on its lights. The lives of 100,000 men were risked to let some 200 pilots see their way home. In Viet Nam, 50 planes suspended their air war for eight hours to try to rescue Major Jim Kasler, a popular...
...Mitscher launched his first strike at 0540, Oct. 25; during the day Task Force 38 planes made 527 sorties, sank three carriers and a destroyer and crippled a fourth carrier. U.S. surface ships and submarines sank the crippled carrier, a light cruiser and a destroyer. But Bull Halsey was not around for the slaughter; for hours he had been getting urgent queries as to his whereabouts, desperate requests for help off Samar. At 1055 Halsey gave in to the pressure, ordered a large part of his force to turn back south -and went with them. By the time...