Word: pasteurize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along the gleaming Boulevard Pasteur the luxury shops were empty, and the innumerable stalls of the city's moneychangers were closed in protest. Unexpectedly Morocco's King Mohammed V had issued a dahir (royal decree) revoking the charter he had granted Tangier in 1957 after his government took over the international free city from its eight-nation administration. At the time, the King had promised that the "free market in foreign exchange"-the source of all Tangier's material blessings-would go on as before. Now, it seemed, Tangier was scheduled to become, economically as well...
...ease back into the passenger business, started off with the 19,100-ton Swedish hospital ship Gripsholm (cost: $2,500,000) to save the time and money of building a new ship, rechristened her Berlin. Bremen was made over in similar fashion two years ago from the French Pasteur, which had been launched in 1939. Lloyd rebuilt her completely at an overall cost of $25 million. Says Bertram: "The same ship would cost $44 million starting from scratch, and we wouldn't get delivery before 1963." Entering New York harbor last week, Bremen was saluted by the outbound Berlin...
...home be made democratic' and 'how to predict business trends.' We need foreign languages now more than ever. We need history and geography. We need ability to read, write and speak and think clearly . . . How fortunate it is that Galileo, Newton, Beethoven, Faraday and Pasteur had not been taught to work in an 'atmosphere of social awareness...
...Death. Son of a Swiss professor of pedagogy, Daniel Bovet recalls: "We children were guinea pigs for testing father's educational theories. It was wonderful." As a boy. he grew mushrooms in the family cellar, cultivated molds in his mother's fruit jars. In 1929 the famed Pasteur Institute of Paris offered Biologist Bovet a job. By 1932 news reached Paris that Germany's Gerhard Domagk had found that a dye product, prontosil could be used to kill bacteria that cause common infections. Bovet and his colleagues at the Pasteur found that prontosil was "a clumsy, complex...
...Nitti. daughter of the exiled anti-Fascist ex-Premier of Italy, Francesco Nitti. "I proposed immediately," says Bovet. "It was a lightning chemical reaction." Since then, with time out for three children, Filomena Bovet-Nitti has helped her husband in all his work. In 1947, Bovet moved from the Pasteur Institute to Rome's Istituto, which was able to offer him better facilities. The husband-wife team's current preoccupation: the chemistry of the brain, especially as it is influenced by mental illness and by drugs such as the ataraxics. For, believes Biochemist Bovet, the key to mental...