Word: modern
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Theoretically, modern medicine might be called the "age of antibiotics." Actually, the new wonder drugs (like neomycin, see below) have been comparatively scarce and expensive because they had to be grown, slowly and tediously, from molds. Last week Detroit's Parke, Davis & Co. made a dramatic announcement: the first practical synthetic production of an important antibiotic, chloromycetin. The process means that chloromycetin will be quickly and cheaply available for any doctor. It may also point the way to mass production of other antibiotics...
Like most modern advances, the achievement was due to teamwork. But a large part of the credit goes to pretty Dr. Mildred Rebstock, a 28-year-old research chemist who chose a career in research chemistry because "I just liked that sort of thing better than some others." Born in Indiana, Dr. Rebstock (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1945) joined Parke, Davis soon after she left school. She was assigned to the chloromycetin research project in 1947. After two years of testing, she became the first to isolate a synthetic form of chloromycetin that worked on human patients. The life-saving...
Whether or not modern technology can turn areas that geography, biology, or human prejudice has kept backward into prosperous lands was the debate topic for a sextet of men familiar with such underdeveloped regions as the Belgian Congo, and the Punjab...
...Metropolitan has been trumpeting a good deal about its new opera, Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes." I suspect that the fanfare has been, at least in part, an attempt to cover its neglect of modern opera, for "Grimes" seems to be the only work in the current repertoire that is less than 30 years old. This is not wholly the fault of the Met, since it has staged several unsuccessful premieres in recent decades; the empty seats in the Opera House Thursday night showed that the responsibility also lies with the public. But the Met has not gone...
...modern Model A is out of the question--people just wouldn't buy it," Henry Ford II told a press conference at the Business School yesterday afternoon on the day that the American automobile industry produced its millionth car of the year...