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...isolating and developing penicillin; of a heart attack; in Oxford. Though penicillin was discovered by Fleming in 1928, the mold was considered little more than a biological curiosity for a decade until the Australia-born Florey and a team of Oxford researchers reduced it to a pure, yellowish powder that destroyed all kinds of bacteria, saving thousands of lives during World War II and untold millions since...
...progressive," says U.S. Amateur Tennis Ace Arthur Ashe. Perhaps that explains why Ashe took the court recently for exhibition matches in Manhattan's Vanderbilt Tennis and Athletic Club wearing snazzy powder-blue shorts and shirt. All the other players were showing colors too-either "Match Blue," like Ashe, or "Trophy Yellow." What's more, the new Technicolor togs, manufactured by Catalina Martin, bore the endorsement: "Selected by the U.S.L.T.A. for the U.S. Davis Cup Team...
...when we set the powder off, the gator lost his mind...
...usually starts with a couple of roosters ruining my sleep. Our cook brings in a nourishing, if unexciting, breakfast of hot Bulgar wheat with concentrated milk and sugar, coffee and/or Keen (Nestle's), a lemon-lime powder we use to give the filtered water some taste. The Bulgar is like Wheatina or pablum and comes out of a big sack with an American crest on it with the USAID handshake symbol over that, followed by the words, "given by the people of the United States of America"--this is as close to welfare living as I hope to get. USAID...
...consists of hopelessly inadequate "tribal colleges" which separate not only white from black, but tribe from tribe. The South African liberals who invited Curle's efforts shared his conviction that the system not only failed to educate blacks, but demoralized them needlessly. Curle in particular saw a powder keg in the situation. Resentment, and more important, the absence of educated black leadership, "would make it more likely that there would be an almost mindless outburst of violence," if and when blacks got the political power they deserve...