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Junior Varsity: bow, A. Hager; 2, A. Holcombe; 3, P. Olsson; 4, D. Robertson; 5, K. Gregg; 6, J. Maynard; 7, P. Sloan; stroke, W. Bancroft; coxswain, R. Franklin...
...Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute has discovered that a nonflammable part of a waxlike chemical in tobacco smoke acts to inhibit substances that can cause cancer. The anticancer agent (Wynder once thought that the entire substance caused cancer) is also present in auto fumes, where it seems to block cancer-causing substances more effectively-despite the fact that auto exhausts contain 60 times more of the cancer-causing agents. Wynder warned that the presence of the waxlike chemical in tobacco tar does not prevent lung cancer, hopes that eventually enough of the chemical...
...SECRET SPEECH, by John Robinson Beal (138 pp.; Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3.50), is a satiric political fantasy that looks ahead to Khrushchev's overthrow, as explained by his imaginary successor, Comrade Dmitri Pushkov. (Khrushchev's fate is only hinted at: he becomes manager of the State Circus Trust.) Calmly, point by point-in a parody of Khrushchev's own speech in 1956 enumerating Stalin's errors-Pushkov proves to a Communist Party Congress that the man who once had only to pound on a U.N. desk with his shoe to frighten the world has really been...
...shows up with unique characteristics in infrared, spectrophotometers are vital in chemical research, have played an important role in identifying synthesis of drugs and vitamins. Perkin-Elmer also makes among other things a spectrometer for the Air Force that measures the efficiency of missiles in flight. Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute for cancer research uses Perkin-Elmer spectrophotometers for organic chemical analysis...
...Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded grants to three University faculty members for basic scientific research beginning in September...