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...essential factors in human cancer, the researchers are looking for guidelines in viruses that parasitize lower forms of life. They have a suggestive clue in diphtheria bacilli. All the microbes of this species can cause infection in man. but only a few have the dread power to manufacture the poison that leads to the formation of a dead ly, strangling membrane across the victim's throat. And this power depends on the microbes' being infected, in their turn, with a tiny particle of nucleic acid-the core of a virus, which has penetrated the bacterial cell. Why should...
...Meat & Poison. Gerhard has just completed a string quartet to add to the thick sheaf of compositions that has followed the First Symphony-another symphony, a concerto for harpsichord, strings and percussion, and a new work called Concert for Eight, which is scored for an accordion and seven instruments "masked" to produce odd sounds. He is totally unconcerned about the cool public reception his works usually find. When a listener cried "Rubbish!" at the close of a Gerhard concert in England two years ago, Gerhard blithely said: "One man's meat is another man's poison...
...essential accomplice in making smog so irritating to the eyes and so dangerous to health. The assorted hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides spewed out by chimney stacks and tail pipes are bad enough in the raw. But sunlight sets up photochemical reactions involving such chemicals as ozone (a deadly poison) and nitrogen dioxide (an insidious and lethal gas when it hits the lungs). U.S. Public Health Service Toxicologist Sheldon Murphy neatly proved the perils of sunlight by exposing guinea pigs to city-street concentrations of exhausts. Unirradiated, the gases did little harm; after exposure to artificial sunlight, they made the animals...
...dramatic reversal, Bliss and the Ohio G.O.P. have suffered only one important setback. In 1958 a group of politically myopic Ohio businessmen succeeded in getting a right-to-work referendum on the ballot despite Bliss's impassioned warnings that the move would prove to be political poison. Governor William O'Neill endorsed right-to-work and lost, along with Senator John Bricker and scores of other Republicans. Furious at the costly meddling by amateurs, Bliss called 135 leading Ohio Republicans to a meeting, gave them a three-hour lecture course in practical politics, and laid down an ultimatum...
...typical News editorial, "when you feud with so many of your readers and friends. But there are times when you have no other choice. Which brings us quickly to the practice of enforced segregation in the public schools of Florida. It is wrong." His opinions pull such a heavy poison-pen response from racists that Baggs requisitioned a rubber stamp to answer most of the letters. The stamp reads: "This is not a simple life, my friend, and there are no simple answers...