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...with Impurities. Taking natural DNA from a simple virus called Phi X 174 (which consists only of a DNA molecule surrounded by a protein sheath), they added it to the brew as a template, or blueprint, to guide the assembly of the synthetic molecule. Under the influence of the DNA polymerase enzyme, the four basic nucleotides aligned themselves in codelike combinations alongside the natural DNA molecule. Eventually they formed a strand consisting of about 6,000 nucleotide units that was a mirror image of the corresponding strand in the natural molecule. Then, using their mirror-image molecule as a template...
...Phi Beta Kappa has elected its Senior Sixteen. They are: Donald M. Berwick of Winthrop House and Moodis, Conn.; James F. Coakley of Leverett and Arlington, Va.; Bruce C. Dieffenbach of Winthrop and Washington, D.C.; Stephen W. DeYoung of Adams and Rochester, N.Y.; Richard S. Ellis of Winthrop and Dorchester; and also Irwin Gaines of Lowell and New Rochelle, N.Y.; Ira G. Greenberg of Dunster and Miami, Fla.; Walter Jaros of Adams and Great Neck, N.Y.; and Michio Kaku of Leverett and Palo Alto, Calif...
Butcher's financial talent dovetails with Seabrook's knack for curing sick companies. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate ('39) of Princeton, Seabrook first rescued his own family company, Seabrook Farms, from a disastrous slump. In 1959, when his father, now dead, sold control of the frozen-food firm, Seabrook quit as president and joined Butcher. He became president of I.U. in 1965, and of General Waterworks last year. Often his doctoring of acquisitions involves nothing more startling than sending in a financial expert to bail out a sales-minded boss. "A lot of companies are mismanaged...
Female Fellini. Aline Saarinen, nee Bernstein, keeps her work bright, light and informative, without ever making the highbrow seem high-blown. A Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar, whose girlhood goal was to be "intelluptuous," she got a job on Art News "because I could spell Pollaiuolo,"* rose to managing editor in 1944, a year later joined the New York Times as an art critic. While on an assignment in 1952, she interviewed and later married Finnish-born Architect Eero Saarinen (it was her second marriage). After his death eight years later, she appeared on a 1962 CBS special on Lincoln...
...Negro fraternities. After fighting to get white frats to drop discriminatory practices, Columbia administrators find that some Negroes do not consider fraternity life with whites worth bothering about. "They just sit around and drink beer and exchange old exams," complains Marvin Kelly, a member of the new Omega Psi Phi Negro fraternity. "Negro social culture is much more sophisticated," argues Thompkins. A Northwestern Negro explains more simply that "instead of trying to buck the tide, we thought we would take a shot at going...