Word: sheehan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After nine years of dogged work, Chemist John C. Sheehan of M.I.T. announced last week that he had discovered a practical method of synthesizing penicillin V, one of the two most useful forms of the natural antibiotic made by the penicillin mold...
...Sheehan had solved one of modern chemistry's most baffling problems. During World War II a thousand chemists working in 39 laboratories in the U.S. and Britain spent an estimated $20 million trying to accomplish it. One researcher succeeded, but he could not figure out how he had done it and could never do it again. Another group produced a minute quantity, but by methods too complicated for practical production...
...undetermined, although historic Faneuil Hall is reported to be the most likely location. Along with the Harvard group--"The Committee for a Free Hungary"--a similar organization at M.I.T. will jointly sponsor the rally, where "student speakers and prominent Boston citizens will speak," according to committee chairman Cornelius M. Sheehan...
...Sunday rally, Sheehan said, is designed to launch a national appeal for the kind of strong action advocated earlier this week in a petition circulated by the Committee for a Free Hungary. The petition, reportedly signed by 500 people including two Housemasters, calls on the U.S. to sever diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and refuse to recognize the Kadar government, if U.N. action proves ineffective...
Among the speakers the Committee is trying to obtain for its rally is Hungarian-born actress Ilona Massey. Financial backing for the demonstration is reportedly coming from a "group of Boston citizens" who have become interested in the work of Sheehan's group...