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...Last week Donna Rachele told how those last remains were returned. A messenger from the U.S. State Department turned up one day recently with what he said was "something very important." Then he gave her five tiny vials, each containing a bit of tissue, plus a bigger piece of whitish brain in a transparent envelope. The name on the envelope was misspelled MUSSOLINNI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 15, 1966 | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

...Gerard Kuiper, head of the scientific team analyzing the evidence, was that the moon is coated with a frothy substance that "may hide many treacherous things." The University of California's Dr. Harold Urey argued on the other hand that photographs of several craters showed "a whitish button on the bot tom," suggesting that there is "very hard material underneath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mapping the Moon | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

...letting more than a trickle of smoke and fumes escape into the air. These measures did some good. For one thing, they changed the color and character of the smog. Los Angeles smog is still maddeningly irritating to the eyes, but now, at least it is "clean," a glaring whitish color with practically no soot or smoke particles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemical Engineering: Auto-Intoxication in Los Angeles | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

Orthodox medicine poured a flood of doubts and questions at Drs. Ivy and Durovic. What was Krebiozen (pronounced kre-by-o-zen)? Nobody knew, except that it was a whitish crystalline powder. How was it made? For years, Dr. Durovic has kept parts of the process secret. Did it really help cancer patients? On this question there was violent disagreement, intensified by wild charges (from both sides) of misleading or distorted evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Another Round in the Krebiozen Battle | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

...what does the patient get? Dr. Durovic says he brought less than a -teaspoonful-two grams-of the whitish powder from Argentina. This would mean that" it" had been extracted from 2,000 horses (costly, because the horses are killed in the process), as Durovic says he gets only about one milligram per horse. And the human dose of Krebiozen is so fantastically minute-only 1/100 of a milligram-that two grams would be enough for 200,000 doses. Durovic has recently announced making his first U.S. batch of 200 mg. from 200 horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer & Krebiozen | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

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