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...first glance, they seem to be some kind of exotic aquatic life photographed against a background of seaweed. But the spherical creatures portrayed in the pictures taken by scientists from Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Rockefeller University swim not in the sea but in the human bloodstream. They are lymphocytes, cells that are essential parts of the immune system and protect the body against invasion by germs and other foreign matter. Magnified about 13,000 times by a scanning electron microscope, they reveal for the first time structural differences between the two kinds of lymphocytes...
...financed, partly because Petersen refused to pursue leads involving $89,000 in suspect Nixon campaign funds. Petersen relied on the testimony of the Nixon re-election committee's Jeb Stuart Magruder at the trial of the original defendants, even though the committee treasurer, Hugh Sloan, warned that it was false. Magruder later admitted having committed perjury. Petersen also shielded some high Nixon officials from normal grand jury questioning...
...LaRue and Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's personal attorney, destroyed records on the amounts of money they had secretly distributed to the Watergate defendants or their attorneys. Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray burned documents taken from Hunt's safe. Nixon Finance Committee Chairman Maurice Stans, Treasurer Hugh Sloan Jr. and Kalmbach destroyed reports of campaign contributions received before a financing-disclosure law went into effect on April 7, 1972, although this destruction may not have had any direct connection with Watergate...
...their replies are likely to be less dogmatic. Researchers have long suspected that cancer viruses can be passed genetically from parents to offspring in both animals and humans. A team of veterinarians and cancer researchers headed by Dr. William D. Hardy Jr., 33, of New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, has just reported in Nature that among cats, at least, one animal can infect another with the virus that causes leukemia...
...committee wound up with a well-publicized campaign surplus of $4.8 million but has certain expenses to worry about. Since the election, for example, it has dished out $300,500 in legal fees, much of the cash going to help committee officials like Stans, Jeb Magruder and Hugh Sloan in trying to extricate themselves from Watergate...