Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The responsibilities of the Federal Communications Commission have expanded as rapidly as the industry it regulates. Established in 1934 to supervise telephone and telegraph companies and the broadcasting industry, the FCC now oversees a vast realm that includes everything from transoceanic cables to communications satellites. For more than two months...
Last week 202 specialists in half a dozen sciences met at the University of Rhode Island for a roundup conference on the progress and problems connected with mining the seas for drugs. Almost to a man, they complained of lack of funds-a shortage intensified by recent cutbacks in governmental...
Esoteric Substances. In fact, six drug companies were represented at the Rhode Island conference. Some are already active in the field, testing such esoteric substances as paolin I, an antibacterial compound, and paolin II, an antiviral agent. Both were extracted from the juices of the abalone by Dr. Chen Pien...
Died. Ailsa Mellon Bruce, 66, daughter of Aluminum Tycoon Andrew Mellon, and long regarded as the nation's richest woman; in Manhattan. Over the years, Mrs. Bruce (she married Career Diplomat David Bruce in 1926; they were divorced in 1945) quietly donated enormous sums to the institutions she loved...
"Prohibition fused the amateurism and catch-as-catch-can national tendencies of the early days of the republic with a more modern, highly organized lust for violence and the quick buck. It fused the need to massacre twelve hundred thousand American Indians and ten million American buffalo, the lynching bees...