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Laments Bob Swanson of the Minnesota department of agriculture: "This is the dryest winter since...
...idea we would be arrested once we joined in that hug," Jo Swanson, who chose to represent herself, said yesterday. Swanson said the group was never given a warning or told to disperse before police arrested them...
...Swanson, who was arrested earlier for participating in a sit-in at a Boston post office, said she knew she would probably be arrested for the sit-in but had no intention of being taken in by police when she decided to picket Saturday...
Three years later, Boyer joined with a young entrepreneur named Robert Swanson, then 28, to exploit this amazing-and, in some eyes, dangerous-new technology. Only lately has their firm, Genentech Inc.. begun to turn a profit. But its prototype bacterial factories have been extremely busy. They have already produced half a dozen different substances, including insulin, human growth hormone and interferon, the antiviral agent being investigated as a cancer cure. Genentech (pronounced jeh-nen-tek) has also paid off handsomely for Boyer (his initial investment: $500). Offered publicly last October, its stock shot up within 20 minutes...
...Swanson's horses was a stud named Amigo S, who had some speed on him, and in 1947 Swanson began racing on the quarter-horse circuit. Riding without boots, to cut weight, he twice tied the world record for the furlong (12.3 seconds). Then Amigo S came up lame, and Swanson found an art school at Carmel, Calif. near the ocean, so he could exercise him in salt water. Mornings, he broke horses to make a living-"I'd have half a dozen of them lined up in the corral, already saddled, and I'd ride them...