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Last week provided a dramatic climax to this improbable real-life tale as Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, 77, now with the National Council of Scientific Research in Rome, and Stanley Cohen, 63, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, won the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. The pair, who met in St. Louis in 1953 at Washington University, found the first of the body's many "growth factors": proteins that guide the development of immature cells. Said Nobel Committee Member Kerstin Hall: "Every single discovery in the field of cell growth factors has followed closely in the footsteps of Levi...
...consumers hurry to buy before January. Scott Rielly, 28, a Framingham, Mass., real estate appraiser with a wife and two children, spent $14,000 last month on two new cars -- a Hyundai and a Mitsubishi -- at least partly so that he could write off the $700 sales tax. Rita and Dan Houlihan, a Chicago couple, have the same strategy in mind because of 8% state and city sales taxes. Says Rita: "On a $14,000 car, we're talking $1,120 in sales tax that we could deduct if we buy a car this year." Many auto dealers in states...
...wire. All of a sudden Carl Hunnel's phone began to ring ceaselessly as the press at home and abroad smelled a newsworthy aberration, always the cause of a stampede, especially in August, when Presidents are on holiday. Fostoria, a town of 17,000 that until Rita Ratchen's sighting was best known for the Fostoria Shade & Lamp Co., a fine glassworks that burned in 1895, went under the glare of world attention. "Yes," the Review Times wrote on Aug. 21, "Fostoria...
...paper's unsatisfactory tank pictures. The caption said, "After several futile attempts at photographing the image of Christ people said they were seeing on a tank at ADM on Ohio 12, the Review Times called upon an area artist to outline the image with the assistance of Rita Ratchen, the first area resident to report the phenomenon. It took artist Don Droll, 421 W. Fremont St., approximately three hours to produce his outline, done with India ink on a clear overlay covering the photograph. The outline more clearly indicates where the Christ image is said to appear, including the small...
...what of Rita Ratchen these days? "I see it as a natural phenomenon," she said over coffee the other morning in the LK Restaurant down the road from the soybean tank. As she spoke, a waitress came over with a tally sheet from the home office, showing that the establishment's volume since Jesus was sighted has moved it from 53rd place in a 55-restaurant chain to third place. "It is caused by the lights and the rust," Rita went on, "but I believe the Lord permitted it to happen. Just as I believe the Lord permits things...