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...think that it will be beneficial to the Soviet Union, at least for their public relations, to release them, and this is the main thrust of our letters," said Zinovy Reichstein, a fourth-year graduate student who does research for HSSJ. But he added, "We're not trying to get involved in politics and change Soviet policies in certain areas...
...Reichstein said that an attempted filmed interrogation of Gennady on the Hatch letter, a visit from a member of the Supreme Soviet, and the publication of an article in the Moscow Evening News claiming that Natalia was corrupting the minds of Soviet youth, all suggest that the couple may face imminent arrest...
Meanwhile, before last week's sessions broke up, the experts got news of yet another potential medical tool. Nobel Prizewinner Tadeus Reichstein of Basel University announced that he had isolated a powerful adrenal hormone which he provisionally called "electrocortin." Since the newly isolated hormone undoubtedly plays a part in the body's balances. Dr. Hench called electrocortin "the biggest thing" of the congress, but neither he nor Dr. Reichstein would prophesy as to its therapeutic possibilities. Whatever its potentialities in the treatment of arthritis and other diseases, electrocortin will probably not be available in large quantities for some...
Fourteen more steps in processes worked out by Tadeus Reichstein, a Swiss chemist, and Lewis H. Sarett of Merck & Co. lead to cortisone itself...
Last week Syntex announced that a group of its chemists headed by Dr. George Rosenkranz had at last accomplished the feat, starting with diosgenin from cabeza de negro. They transformed it by 18 chemical steps to "Reichstein's Compound D,* which had been found in minute quantities in the adrenal gland, but had never been synthesized. Only three more steps were needed to turn this compound into cortisone...