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A major step in chemistry and medicine, the synthesis of reserpine, an important drug in the treatment of mental disorders, was announced Saturday by Robert B. Woodward, Morris Loeb professor of Chemistry.
On Sunday afternoon, Bridgman, Charles Morris, professor of Philosophy at Chicago, and Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, will speak on "Prospects for a New Synthesis" under chairman Detlev W. Bronk, president for the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
¶The Second National Conference on Spiritual Foundations met in Washington, D.C., with some 250 religious leaders and laymen-Christian, Jewish, Moslem, Hindu and Buddhist-and heard such potent speakers as Vice President Nixon, Admirals Radford and Strauss. "Civilization," said the conference message, "rests ultimately upon an act of belief...
All these narratives are, quite obviously, vehicles for Russell's own peculiar philosophical, social, and religious ideas. What they lack in subtlety, however, they more than make up in sharp wit and deep, sometimes searing insight into contemporary foibles. The aged philosopher must be thinking of recent mental panaceas when...
One of the country's foremost biochemists, Woodward has done research in the synthesis of quinine, cortisone, and lysergic acid.