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...treat them), and the law looked upon them as human vermin who had to be swept off the streets and thrown into drunk tanks. Old attitudes still persist, but within the past five years there has been a remarkable change in prognosis. No miracle cure, no equivalent of the Salk vaccine is in sight for the alcoholic, and none is ever likely to be found; but for every one of the many alcoholisms there is at least one treatment or combination of treatments that offers a good chance of cure...
...moods created by it. He also incorporated such traditionally concealed "servant" elements as ducts, pipes and storage space into visible design. Slight and white-haired, with a poetic regard for his materials ("A brick is happy when it is an arch"), Kahn was best known for the Salk Institute complex in La Jolla, Calif., and for his recently completed Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. He also designed the capital buildings in Dacca, Bangladesh...
...Arthur T. Hertig, professor of Pathology, said yesterday that he was opposed to the bill. He said that the human polio virus could not have been cultured had the bill been in effect in the early 1950s. Hertig explained that both the Salk vaccine and the german measles vaccines were developed from viruses obtained from human embryonic tissue...
...Salk vaccine and the measles vaccine could have been developed on the kidneys of naturally-aborted fetuses," he added yesterday...
After winning the Nobel Prize for helping to discover the structure of DNA, the master molecule of life, what does a scientist like Francis Crick do for an encore? He tackles something even bigger. With Leslie Orgel, of California's Salk Institute, Crick has now taken on the mystery of the origin of life. Writing in Icarus, a monthly devoted to studies of the solar system, the two scientists theorize that life on earth may have sprung from tiny organisms from a distant planet-sent here by spaceship as part of a deliberate act of seeding...