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Communists like their leaders to be larger than life and to have accomplishments to match. For example, China's Chairman Mao Tse-tung made a big splash in 1966, when at age 72 he reportedly swam nine miles down the Yangtze River. Then Rumania's Party Boss Nicolae Ceauşescu made hunting history in 1978 by bagging the largest bear ever shot in Europe. Now it appears that Fidel Castro too can boast of a fancy feat. During the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, he is said to have shot down singlehanded an American U-2 plane...
Genetic engineering, an ensemble of techniques to join bits of DNA and insert them into bacteria to make large quantities of potentially valuable proteins, made a great splash last year when stock from Genentech Inc. went public and jumped $45 per share during its first day on the market. The slightest technological advance still sends prices leaping. Genentech jumped $7 in one day two weeks ago when workers announced a new process to make interferon, a supposed cancer-fighting protein. Genentech will now use yeast to produce the human protein rather than bacteria. It doesn't seem like a major...
...young scientists under him by dropping everything to watch the World Series on TV. He also likes to fish and ski and until a year ago jogged regularly (he has grown chunky since). The only obvious change in Boyer's life-style since Genentech's big splash has been the acquisition of a new champagne-beige Porsche Targa (cost: $40,000). He is married and has two children, but since his sudden riches, he likes to keep them out of the limelight. Even his associates at Genentech do not have his new home phone number...
...Idaho Falls, Idaho, school book review committee did not make a big splash when it voted, 21 to 1, to ban One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-in response to one parent's objection to some of the language. It was not much bigger news when Anaheim, Calif., school officials authorized a list of approved books that effectively banned many previously studied books, including Richard Wright's classic Black Boy. And who recalls the Kanawha, Iowa, school board's banning The Grapes of Wrath because some scenes involved prostitutes...
Trendy types who party in their redwood tubs built for two or four or more may be buoyed by some notion that they are making a splash in 1980s fashion. But Architect and Social Critic Bernard Rudofsky pulls the plug on all that. "Why, in the Middle Ages," says Rudofsky, "people ate their dinner, conducted business, feuded, made love and even held wedding banquets in their tubs with the guests half-submerged in the water." Rudofsky also frowns on the chlorination, artificial scents and hygienic filters favored by contemporary communal splashers. Says he: "Americans have a long...