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...lately has their firm, Genentech Inc.. begun to turn a profit. But its prototype bacterial factories have been extremely busy. They have already produced half a dozen different substances, including insulin, human growth hormone and interferon, the antiviral agent being investigated as a cancer cure. Genentech (pronounced jeh-nen-tek) has also paid off handsomely for Boyer (his initial investment: $500). Offered publicly last October, its stock shot up within 20 minutes to $89 a share from an initial price of $35. Even near year's end, after it settled back to around $40, Boyer...
...first time they had been allowed to field a team separate from West Germany's (although they were denied their own flag, emblem and anthem). This year at Munich, East Germany will have all the privileges of a full-fledged team. Its national anthem-Auferstanden aus Rui-nen-could conceivably salute as many victories as The Star-Spangled Banner or Gitnn Sovietskogo Soyuza. Last summer, in fact, the steadily improving East Germans bested the rest of Europe, including the Soviet Union, in track and field, swimming and rowing. At the winter Olympic Games in Sapporo last February, they...
...have a lot of sympathy with nen whose consciences will not allow them to go. But to be quite honest, I can't raise my conscience to that pitch of sensitivity. I believe that the state has a right to ask military service of its citizens," he said at the weekly Memorial Church service...
Pavilion in a Ravine. At first, Saari nen had proposed a concrete building, but the coolness of Deere executives led him back to the expressionist truth of architecture: the building ought to symbolize its purpose. So Saarinen chose steel, the material of plows and tractors, to "reflect the big, forceful, func tional character of its products...
...Marche Funebre del Signor Maestro Contrapunto (Funeral March of Master Counterpoint), a mock-heroic exercise for his pupil, Babette Ployer; Beethoven's graceful and pensive Bagatelle for Therese Malfatti, the 18-year-old niece of his doctor; Wagner's Ankunft bei den Schwarzen Schwänen (Arrival at the Black Swans), which sounds a little like Tristan und Isolde as written by Frédéric Chopin...