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...gases completely free of water, the scientists exposed them to ultraviolet radiation and found that they combined to produce small quantities of some of the amino acids essential to life. Says Wollin: "Perhaps liquid ammonia, with its physical and chemical properties so similar to water, could serve as a solvent medium for waterless life...
...religious orders in America are legendary lodes, but Gollin guesses that they really hold only $150 million in cash and securities. Most of their $8.2 billion in assets is tied up in unprofitable universities and other schools. However, he figures that they can keep solvent if they concentrate on more businesslike use of their skilled, dedicated manpower, and abandon such unprofitable pastimes as raising vegetables and selling fruitcakes...
...giving specifics, Administration officials maintain that if Lockheed fails they will have to renegotiate some of its defense contracts with other producers, and probably be forced to pay more. In trying to find precedents for helping Lockheed, Connally mentions the Reconstruction Finance Corp., which made loans to troubled but solvent companies from Depression days through 1953. Yet these loans were limited to $500,000, and theoretically they were available to all firms, not only those with special clout. In asking for help now, Lockheed has noted that in 1967 the Government guaranteed a $75 million credit for Douglas Aircraft before...
After six years of childless marriage, John and Cynthia Burke of Newark decided to adopt a baby boy through a state agency. Since the Burkes were young, scandal-free and solvent, they had no trouble with the New Jersey Bureau of Children's Services?until investigators came to the line on the application that asked for the couple's religious affiliation...
...president of the Danforth Foundation in addition to his duties as dean of the Medical School. He is less of a national figure than many of the other candidates, primarily because he has concentrated his energies on, among other things, keeping Washington University solvent through the graces of the Danforth Foundation...