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...months, Germany's perennially astonishing Volkswagenwerk will roll out the 13 millionth copy of the car that is known at Wolfsburg as "Type 1" -and to the rest of the world as "the beetle." The builders of the bug are less exultant over another statistic, however. Type 1, first manufactured in 1945, has already exceeded by five years the 19-year production span of Henry Ford's Model T-the Tin Lizzie that old Henry kept on too long, until it nearly carried him to ruin. Demand for the beetle remains strong, but VW fears getting stuck with...
When he set out to take his DNA pictures, Caltech Graduate Student Jack Griffith, 26, was well aware that his task would be extremely difficult. The DNA molecules from the pea-plant chromosomes used in his research project were only one thirteen-millionth of an inch across and would be agonizingly difficult to distinguish even with the aid of the most powerful electron microscope. In addition, the molecules would be distorted or destroyed by the instrument's electron beam before they could be photographed. Then how could they be photographed...
...have now developed a technique for using hormone-like chemicals to attack one species of bug at a time. Working with DMF, a synthesized chemical compound that acts like a juvenile hormone, a Prague team under Biologist Karel Sláma discovered that it took just one microgram (a millionth of a gram) to sterilize for life a female linden-bug. They also found that a dose as much as 10,000 times the amount of DMF required to produce sterility would cause no other harmful effects. So they figured that a male linden-bug treated with a massive quantity...
...months pregnant, takes a fall on the ice as she and Bobby skim a rink for the benefit of photographers and the skaters' vote. Abigail McCarthy totters out of a sickbed to stump for Gene. Happy Rockefeller endures scores of bone-crushing handshakes daily. Pat Nixon makes her millionth airport arrival, to beam and greet the faithful. Only Muriel Humphrey, recuperating from an operation, has been spared...
...Fiat last summer overtook VW as the world's fourth biggest automaker (behind the U.S. Big Three), Volkswagen's total sales last year reached $2.3 billion, even after the West German recession of early 1967 forced a temporary 25% cutback in domestic production. Soon, the 14 millionth beetle will roll off VW's assembly lines...