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Commercial labs, more than 50 so far, have sprung up across the country, creating a demand that allows top-flight researchers and agricultural scientists "to write their own ticket." In California venture capitalists have provided "seed" money for Calgene in Davis and Phytogene in Pasadena. In St. Louis Monsanto has just added a gleaming molecular biology center to its agricultural research facilities. Pioneer Hi-Bred International, the nation's top breeder of seed corn, has broken ground for its own high-tech molecular biology lab in Des Moines...
...earthbound viewers, and even for scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory outside Pasadena, which masterminds Voyager's progress, the show-stopper was, once again, Saturn's rings. Better illuminated than they were during Voyager 1's flyby, they showed up in greater detail and in far greater number: literally by the thousands. Before Voyager 2's visit, scientists had a ready hypothesis to explain why the icy materials of the rings-fragments ranging in size from dust specks to boulders-follow only certain orbits and not others, leaving gaps of hundreds of miles. The gaps...
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Thomas J. Bush Pasadena, Calif...
Dean Witter Reynolds, a leading Wall Street brokerage house, has already raised more than $165 million from investors for Public Storage Inc. of Pasadena, Calif., the nation's largest miniwarehouse chain. Public Storage operates 165 separate warehouses, located mostly in the Sunbelt. Shearson Loeb Rhoades is helping to finance the growth of rival Colonial Storage Group of Odessa, Texas, which was founded in 1969 and now has 81 facilities in operation. Meanwhile, Merrill Lynch has also entered the field, with a $15 million miniwarehouse investment program for pension funds...