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...them down. His idea of sin is to eat ice cream. His idea of a great time is to talk on the phone. His idea of heaven is to spend hours debating the pros and cons of Proposition 13. He wears dirty jeans three days in a row, chews vitamin pills and remembers everything. He makes coast-to-coast plane reservations for six consecutive flights, then misses all of them. Almost the only appurtenance consonant with his celebrity is an address book Don Juan would envy. As one of his best friends puts it, "He can be an idiot...
...Columbia, students called him Vitamin Z. At the White House, inner-circle Georgians refer to him as Woody Woodpecker, because his Dagwood-style haircut gives him the cartoon character look, and because he keeps rap-rap-rapping for the President's ear. His friends call him Zbig, and their one-word description is energetic. He thinks fast, acts fast, talks fast. Critics would say too fast, too compulsively and too impulsively. Even his trim body, angular face and darting eyes convey an image of intense energy...
...known as the Quick test, a method of determining the clotting ability of a patient's blood and of helping to diagnose various diseases. Later research led to new tests for hemophilia. Working at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, he recently identified a new vitamin, appropriately named vitamin Q, which is found in soybean extract and which plays a part in the body's control of bleeding...
...Vitamin and mineral supplements must be taken with the liquid protein, which does not contain them, Blackburn said. The protein is safe, but exclusive consumption of the liquid for long periods of time may result in serious mineral deficiencies, Blackburn said...
Died. Louis Frederick Fieser, 78, the Harvard organic chemist who first synthesized the blood-clotting agent vitamin K and developed combat napalm; in Cambridge, Mass. His research into the chemical reactions involved in cancer-a disease the cigarette-smoking Fieser himself contracted-won him numerous awards. About his work with napalm, the gasoline-derivative jelly first used in World War II and then extensively in Viet Nam, Fieser once declared: "I'd do it again, if called upon, in defense of the country...