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Died. Nathan Homer Knorr, 72, third president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the 105-year-old denomination also known as Jehovah's Witnesses; after a long illness; in Wallkill, N.Y. During his 35 years as president of the society, which believes that Armageddon is near at hand, Knorr helped build up its membership from 113,000 to 1 million, in 80 countries. A vigorous preacher, Knorr charged that organized religion was working the world's destruction by perverting the Bible's teaching...
...going to happen. It was better that he didn't, because he intended to look DuPont in the eye and say, "Write a novel sir," to which DuPont would have snorted "Balderdash!" or something equally puerile. But Shapiro was fascinated by what was moving up from his gastro-intestinal tract; slowly yes, but inexorably moving, and he felt the way pharoah's charioteers must have felt when they saw the Red Sea falling in on them, and nowhere to run. Up, up, up it came--and there it was, he figured he might as well make it good, and threw...
Curtiss is still working to develop a more perfect-or defective-microbe for recombinant DNA research. But for the time being, genetic engineers have available a tailor-made microbe that cannot survive outside the laboratory and that cannot colonize or even live in the human intestinal tract. Nor is this the only indication that the bug would make a poor pathogen, or disease organism. Curtiss' handmade microbe will not survive in human serum-including that of cancer patients. It is also easily destroyed by common household detergents...
...West," McCall's topic, doesn't send you into paroxisms of intellectual delight, simply listening to McCall talk should be a pleasure. His speaking style is light, slangy, and occasionally outrageous. When governor he hired an avant-garde poet as a speechwriting assistant, and he once read a tract from the libretto of "Hair" to a staid group of Masons. Who know's what he'll say to a group of college students...
Died. Antonino Rocca, 49, flamboyant wrestler who claimed that he knew "the secret of life" (good blood circulation) and would live to be 150; of a urinary tract infection; in Manhattan. Born in Italy, Rocca grew up in Argentina and became one of its most popular wrestlers. He moved to the U.S. in 1949, delighting millions of fans around the ring and on TV with his barefoot dropkick, in which he leaped into the air, pummeling his opponent with both feet...