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Scientists, politicians, and corporate leaders were just beginning to get over the initial shock caused by the announcement of a ten-year, $60 million grant for research in genetic engineering given to Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital by a German firm last month, when they were jolted again on Monday. Du Pont, the chemical and drug conglomerate that dominates the state of Delaware, had promised $6 million to another group of geneticists, and once again the recipients are associated with Harvard--this time through the Medical School itself...
...This year's selection culminates a ten-year trend during which the number of women journalists from the electronic media in the program has grown steadily. James C. Thomson, curator of the Foundation, said yesterday. Margot Adler and Anita Harris, two of the women chosen, work for public radio and television, respectively...
...came back three weeks ago when a House judiciary subcommittee opened debate on extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. A key provision of the law will expire in August 1982 and many of the nation's minority leaders were on hand to plead for at least a ten-year extension...
...particularly bad time for the U.S. Treasury. It auctioned $6.75 billion in long-term bonds and notes last week, and the jump in interest rates meant that the Government was forced to offer investors considerably more than had been anticipated: 14.56% on ten-year notes and 13.99% on 30-year bonds. In February ten-year notes were being sold at 12.89% interest...
...Thurmond, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee: "After 17 years, the states ought to be given a chance to get out from under the act." Responds Senator Edward Kennedy, who along with Republican Senator Charles Mathias of Maryland and Democratic Congressman Peter Rodino of New Jersey is proposing a ten-year extension of the law: "The most successful civil rights law in history is in danger of falling victim to its own success...