Word: pa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High Tension. In Hatboro, Pa., Ralph Kufen returned from a trip to an electrical repairmen's convention after hearing that his house had caught fire because of faulty wiring...
...citizen, settled down at Harvard in 1930 to teach and to do research work on the origins of chemical reactions. As chief of the explosives division of the National Defense Research Committee in World War II, he organized and ran a 600-man explosives laboratory in Bruceton, Pa. Once Kistiakowsky got a rush assignment from the OSS: the allies needed an explosive that could be used for sabotage work in Europe and the Far East; it had to be easy to carry, innocent in appearance. Kistiakowsky's imaginative product was an explosive that looked like flour. Dubbed "Aunt Jemima...
...sitting quietly in his den or kitchen working out corporate problems on a yellow pad of legal paper, and his workday rarely ends before 7 or 8. His free time is generally spent with his wife in a sprawling Victorian house in Hawley, Pa.; it is her family home and they were married there, have never given it up. He likes trout fishing, golf (with luck, under 90), and singing hymns (he is a Presbyterian) and folk songs. He is an enthusiastic cook. Special ties: doughnuts, Pennsylvania Dutch coffeecake, and fluffy pancakes-for which his secret is a pinch...
SAMUEL F. MORROW Zelienople, Pa...
Researchers have been looking for an insecticide that would supplement or even replace DDT. There has been evidence that DDT is sometimes absorbed by plants and ends up in human tissues. Also, some insects have developed immunity to it. With Pa van's discovery, researchers in the U.S., Britain, Italy and Germany went to work. Last week a three-man team headed by Bonn University Chemistry Professor Friedhelm Korte, who also runs a Shell oil company laboratory in suburban Bonn, announced it had at last synthesized Iridomyrmecin. Cautioned a Shell spokesman: "We cannot say how much the new stuff...