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Still the search goes on. Last week Ohio University's Dr. Henry Vallowe attracted attention with a report that he had extracted a potent antifertility agent from a common weed. He has used the stuff so far only on rats, a procedure that is far from a demonstration that a drug is suitable for humans. Dr. Vallowe refused to identify his weed, though drug companies tried to persuade him to do so. What he did say was that in his rats the compound did not work, as estrogens do, by suppressing ovulation. If this is correct...
...officials in the dark about changes in bank ownership. Mindful of congressional cries that gangsters may still be buying up banks to sanitize their hot money, Joseph W. Barr, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., announced that he has set up a unit to help the Justice Department weed out criminals in banking...
...Hermon Weed Stevens '87 died Wednesday in Arlington at the age of 101. He was the second oldest living degree holder among Harvard alumni...
...want 'ups' and 'ups' and 'ups.' " Even Snoopy-whom Short sees as a kind of Christ figure, a hound of heaven alternately threatening to run away with Linus' blanket and offering to Charlie Brown a tail-wagging friendship-is obsessed with a "weed-claustrophobia" that makes him a less than desirable outfielder, a fallible catcher...
...backfiring truck threw cops into a panic. At the climax of the demonstration, an explosion-a real one-resounded on the water side of the sleek, glass-skinned building as a 9-lb. shell splashed into the East River just 200 yds. away. In a weed-strewn lot on the opposite bank, 900 yds. away, police later found a 3.5-in. Army bazooka, still aimed at the U.N., with a Cuban flag taped on the barrel...