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Toward Synthetic Cells. Biochemist Sidney W. Fox of Florida State University reported progress toward creating life in the laboratory. Experimenters have long known that when a mixture of methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide and water vapor (all probable constituents of the earth's primitive atmosphere) is bombarded with electric sparks or high-energy radiation, amino acids are produced. Amino acids are the building blocks that form the multitudinous proteins in living organisms, and Dr. Fox carried the process a step farther. When he heated a mixture of amino acids with polyphosphoric acid as a catalyst, he got big molecules with...
...trouble. Inscribed on a thin strip of wax paper were spectroscopic readings of the light from Venus. They showed that when the sun's light passes through Venus' atmosphere, certain infra-red lines are partially absorbed, providing dramatic evidence that Venus' cloudy atmosphere contains water vapor...
experience vapor. An executive fog from which the boss can see with amazing clarity. See BUSINESS, The Greeting Card King...
...assortment. He keeps constant tab on the profit sharing, health insurance, hours and pay of his some 5.000 employees, even inspects the food served in the company cafeteria. When he rejects something, he is liable to do it without giving reasons, says only that his decisions come from "the vapor of experience." Out of this fog has come an almost uninterrupted string of correct answers on what cards the fickle U.S. public will buy. "I have a hard time explaining why." says Hall. "But I know-there's something in the past years that's telling...
...flying object was reported by residents along the Atlantic coast from Florida to Maine. According to one Cambridge observer it appeared traveling at meteoric speed from the south, seemed to pause over Kenmore Square, then drifted slowly toward Boston, trailing two glowing streams of vapor...