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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pill's hormones are derived mostly from a chemical called diosgenin, which until 1945 was obtainable only in small quantities from tropical plants. Then Dr. George Rosenkranz, at that time a Syntex research chemist, found that the Mexican yam, or barbasco root, yielded much larger amounts of diosgenin. In 1951 Syntex's Dr. Carl Djerassi first synthesized from it female sex hormones that women could swallow. Later it was discovered that the hormones were effective as an oral contraceptive. Syntex then began selling the compound to other drug firms, later introduced its own pill. Both Syntex and Searle...
...indulgences, erasing all the temporal punishment due for sins, have been available only to pilgrims who visited Rome and its four major basilicas. Even though travel to the Eternal City is faster and cheaper than ever before, the Vatican has now extended the Jubilee indulgences so that Catholics can obtain them at home, by attending designated churches in their dioceses where services are held featuring instruction on the reforming spirit of Vatican...
...pursued and even now, as I write, no less than five policemen are watching me. This is the perfect Kafka situation but you will pardon me if I do not consider it any longer funny . . . There is a church here for those who are solitary and the comfort you obtain from it is non-existent though I have wept many times there . . . Incidentally I smell...
...more remarkable because only two years ago Montecatini was in deep trouble. The company, whose products range from aluminum to antibiotics, expanded too rapidly during Il Boom, found itself strapped by ambitious commitments, soaring wages and increased building costs when Il Sboom-the recession-hit Italy. Unable to obtain a needed $72 million loan in a shrinking capital market, Faina skipped a dividend for only the second time in 18 years, looked around for other relief. He found it in a partnership under which the Royal Dutch/Shell Group put up half the cost of Montecatini petrochemical plants abuilding at Ferrara...
...personal comments should appear in the published report. The second argument, however, is less valid. Just as a newspaper reporter must get his point across without printing "off the record" information, the HPC need not violate confidence. And certainly, if department members are uncooperative, the HPC can obtain information easily enough elsewhere. In this University, little can be hidden from an industrious digger...