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...appear in court for the last day of his trial, he was found purple-faced and unconscious in the Chelsea apartment where he had been staying with a friend. On a table beside him were scattered a dozen letters to friends and acquaintances. On the floor lay an empty vial that had contained 100 Nembutal tablets-a drug very different from the kind he had long been taking for pleasure. While doctors worked to save his flickering life at St. Stephen's Hospital, the judge continued his summing-up and sent the case to the jury. That evening, after...
...last week. Inside, work is progressing on a bulletproof glass and plastic cage in which Adolf Eichmann will sit when he goes on trial. The cage, declare the Israelis, is both to shield Eichmann from assassination by an enraged spectator and to prevent a sympathizer from slipping him a vial of poison such as allowed Hermann Göring to escape the hangman's noose during the Nürnberg War Crimes trials after World...
...secretive Dr. Durovic's method of injecting into horses a preparation of killed and sterilized fungi,* waiting for the horses' systems to react, then bleeding them and extracting Krebiozen from their blood serum by a highly involved process. He has duplicated the process and has a vial containing a few milligrams of an off-white powder which he believes is identical with Durovic's Krebiozen. Ivy has also worked on Krebiozen's chemistry. It is, he declares, a "tissue hormone" secreted by the RES cells. If Krebiozen is indeed a tissue hormone, he has a better...
When the crop is big enough, a sample is put into a cotton-stoppered vial inside a bigger vial, and frozen solid. When the air is pumped out of the vial, the frozen water departs as vapor, leaving a dry residue that looks like an aspirin tablet and contains perhaps 1,000,000 deeply sleeping germs. Some germs will live for 20 years in this state, and can be awakened by adding nutrient. Thus encouraged, they multiply-and then can be put back to sleep again for another 20 years...
...made more than 8,000 shipments in 1959. Disease germs went mostly to medical schools and drug companies (no amateurs need apply for plague or typhoid), but nonharmful cultures went to everybody who asked. High schools got standardized bacteria for biology experiments at the bargain price of $2 per vial...