Word: plante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bonn government still ended up with what one official called a "most valuable" cache of documents and four other prisoners: Alfred Bahr, 58, a physicist in the solar-power division of Munich's Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm aerospace plant; Karl Hauffe, 65, head of the organic chemistry department at Göttingen University; Günter Sänger, 32, an engineer with the giant Siemens electronics corporation in Coburg; and Gerhard Arnold, 43, an executive of a Munich computer company. None was as big a fish as Günter Guillaume, longtime former aide to Chancellor Willy...
DIED. Elvin C. Stakman, 93, pre-eminent plant pathologist who led the war against wheat diseases; in St. Paul. Combating the fungus diseases called rusts, he attached Vaseline-coated slides to plane wings in 1921 and by collecting the parasitic red spores in the air, proved that the disease blew seasonally across the nation. A member of the University of Minnesota faculty (1909-53) and the Rockefeller Foundation, "Stak" increased the world's wheat yields by breeding new, hardier strains as the fungi also continued to evolve. "Find out all you have to buck," he once said, "and then...
...Inadequate investment. Between 1948 and 1973, business spending on new plant and equipment added 3% a year to the capital investment supporting each man-hour of work. Since then this capital-labor ratio has increased only 1.75% annually. Economists argue fiercely whether the chief reason has been tax policies that favor consumption over investment or business fear that recession and/or inflation will wipe out the profit on new investment. In either case, the result has been to slow the introduction of cost-cutting, labor-saving machinery and, says the CEA, to slash the growth of productivity by half a percentage...
...company's solidly engineered cars, but his business deals seem not to be put together so well. The energetic and outspoken Gyllenhammar has been searching for ways to boost sales, but his efforts have resulted so far in little more than wheel spinning. Plans to build an assembly plant in the U.S. and to merge with archcompetitor Saab-Scania have both had to be given up for one reason or another. Last week Gyllenhammar got his biggest setback yet; opposition by Volvo shareholders forced him to scrap a plan to sell 40% of the company to the Norwegian government...
...full of flies, observing a colony of birds and musing that "the individual cliff swallow is the philosophical equivalent of a single cell of the multicellular colony-organism," realizing that every good biologist must also be a philosopher. "The biologist," he concludes, "approaches nature in the form of a plant or animal and immediately begins asking questions about the innermost soul, the innermost characteristics, the true spectrum as well as the immediate traits, of the living thing." Janovy cannot offer his readers conclusive answers. But as his jewel of a journal makes clear, he never fails to ask the right...