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...hardly a week passes without some mention of interferon in the press. Last week the Boston Globe reported that M.I.T. researchers had developed a new mass-production technique that could reduce the cost of a dose of interferon to one-twentieth of its present cost. Earlier this month G.D. Searle & Co. announced plans to build a $12 million IF plant at its research facilities in Britain. Abbott Laboratories, Warner-Lambert, Merck & Co., and a number of other companies are also gearing up for interferon production. When Biogen S.A., a Swiss firm specializing in the new recombinant DNA (gene splicing) techniques...
While the normal billing period ends on the twentieth of each month, the phone company did not mail last month's bills--covering the period from February 20 to March 20--until yesterday...
...right-wing organizations in the United States-the Liberty Lobby, the Rev. Carl McIntire's Twentieth Century Reformation Hour, the Rev. Billy James Hargis's Manion Forum-Welch managed to build the only one with a broad base of popular support. The John Birch Society quickly jumped to about 50,000 members, and John F. McManus, director of public relations, says membership since then has remained between...
...Modern Tradition: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors, now at the MFA, is a dubious lumping together of the fragments and varied styles of 20th century art, of schools and schisms which recoil from the cohesion of a term like 'tradition...
...exhibition is a visual smorgasbord. It offers a taste of most major twentieth schools and artists, but still leaves you hungry. You're invited to sample, but not to savor...