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Seed-Time. In 1948 Lysenko got official Communist endorsement for his "theories," which meant that anyone who challenged them was setting himself up against the party. A new wave of dismissals and Siberian imprisonments engulfed rival biologists and geneticists. In 1956, in the period of destalinization, Lysenko suffered partial eclipse. Party chieftains criticized his theories, and official journals exposed reports by his supporters as fakes; many of his victims were rehabilitated and reinstated. Soviet biology began to recover as a science...
...least ten times that of morphine." (By this phrasing, scientists do not mean that it can kill pain ten times as severe as morphine does, but that it kills the same pain with one-tenth the dose.) At the same time, said Flemming, "it gives preliminary promise that a partial separation of the analgesic and addicting properties may have been achieved...
...prospects for a nuclear test ban agreement at Geneva become progressively brighter (and sporadically dimmer), it seems apparent that Western negotiators, hastening to score a propaganda victory and, possibly, contribute to a healthier world, have overlooked a vital point in the mechanics of a moratorium. Under the partial draft treaty, as it now reads, all testing will stop, even those explosions which may be necessary for the continuation of experiments in the peaceful application of atomic energy...
...professors expressed partial agreement last night to a proposal by a Divinity School faculty member that a course in Christian culture be included in the undergraduate curriculum...
...same time slot on CBS, Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic provided immense excitement with a partial performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, accompanied by one of Bernstein's uniquely lucid music-appreciation lectures. A leaner, older-looking Lenny-part of the change was obviously due to a haircut-was in top form as conductor, showman and talker, although the grandeur of the Ninth had him reaching hard for genius-sized words. Bernstein conducted the symphony's final movement in a brilliantly balanced performance. The Philharmonic had played the Ninth under Guest Conductor Herbert von Karajan...