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...Wallace and Physician Elmer V. Dahl could not do their research on human beings, so they took the body enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase and studied it in the test tube. Normally, this enzyme breaks down alcohol in the body to acetaldehyde, which another enzyme in turn breaks down to acetic acid. In their experiments at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, the researchers learned that barbiturates hinder the first breakdown process and leave a lot of alcohol in the system. And alcohol has a severe depressing effect on some primitive nerves, including the vital center that regulates breathing. While different barbiturates...
Premier Aldo Moro, 47, is the antithesis of the voluble, emotional Italian. A reserved onetime law professor, he detests the acid name calling of Italian politics, is so shy that he often travels by car to avoid the necessary social amenities on planes and trains. Moro's political genius is for compromise, sometimes achieved by pure tenacity. He once reduced a colleague to near collapse by arguing reasonably for four uninterrupted hours. So conscientiously capable is Moro of seeing all sides of every question that friends and foes alike are convinced that he agrees only with them...
...through its mother's blood, then is catapulted into an air-breathing world. Dr. L. Stanley James, of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, has tested newborn babies' blood. It contains chemicals showing that muscles were burning up starch and turning it into lactic acid during birth. If a birth takes unusually long, the concentration of lactic acid increases; it is a measure of how severely the baby's life has been threatened by oxygen starvation...
...woman he ever worked with," says Elaine bitterly. In fact, a little cloud of H25O4 does seem to hover over Laurence Harvey's head, sprinkling down on all around him, especially women. But he generally has the grace to pour a little milk after the acid. A Walk on the Wild Side he remembers as "a ghastly film, made more so by that ghastly woman Capucine," but he adds: "I suppose it's not her fault she can't act." And he thinks that Of Human Bondage-which opens in March, starring him with Kim Novak-should...
...GALACIDALACIDEOXYRIB ONUCLEICACID (Homage to Crick and Watson), a title so long that it resorts to a parenthetical remark. In a slick equation of Botticelli and biochemistry, Dali portrays a translucent God lifting the dead Christ into heaven, superimposed on the molecular structure of life-bearing DNA or deoxynbonucleic acid, the discovery of which led to Nobel Prizes for Drs. Francis Crick and James D. Watson...