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...respectable newspapers have science reporters now, but when Laurence's career began, such specialized journalists were rare. Good ones were rarer. Laurence not only reported science with exceptional competence but managed to be something of a scientist himself. A suggestion of his set Squibb Laboratories on the track that led to synthesis of the drug sulfadiazine. Another Laurence idea proposed a new avenue of cancer research. He was intrigued by the action of an antivitamin substance that apparently starved cancer cells, and so impressed was the American Association for the Advancement of Science that Laurence was asked to rewrite...
Jackie Kennedy does want to be first, has worked hard to stay there. Both she and Jack have a rare zest for parties, and she has an even rarer knack for making them click. She is a perfectionist who frets over floral settings and menus for even the smallest dinners, but the big ones bring out the best in her. Her extravaganzas are the talk of the Western world-a sunset cruise down the Potomac for 138, a floodlit lawn party at Mount Vernon, a roomtul of Nobel laureates waltzing over the parquet White House floors...
President Paz has given land to the Indians; schools are being built. For the first time, glass is going into window spaces long open to the winds of winter. An occasional Indian pedals the stony paths on a bicycle. A rarer one carries a Japanese transistor radio. Signs of hope are scattered, but visible-much of it owing to President...
...read Jack Gould, for he is the television critic of the New York Times. As such, he holds in one hand the biggest machete and in the other the biggest nosegay possessed by any TV critic. Always fair, faultlessly responsible, he is on rare occasions trenchant, and on even rarer ones funny - as he was recently when he hailed Joe Valachi as a style-setter for Hollywood mobsters of the future...
...world, the fishing industry not only supports thousands of fishermen-who lead probably the roughest and most ill-paid lives of any workers-but countless satellite industries. From Madagascar to Greenland, the catch of the sea, ranging from the lordly tuna through the pedestrian cod and herring to the rarer but often treasured whale and shark, is industriously smoked, fried, salted, baked, dried, roasted, stewed, pickled, casseroled or even eaten half-rotten (as in Iceland) or quite raw (as in Japan...