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...footnoted opinion, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that Congress had explicitly authorized the rules of secrecy in the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Furthermore, the Civil Rights Commission had been given a fact-finding mandate-as opposed to a judicial function-and "cannot take any affirmative action which will affect an individual's legal rights." Due process, said Warren, "is an elusive concept. Its exact boundaries are undefinable . . . When a general fact-finding investigation is being conducted, it is not necessary that the full panoply of judicial procedures be used." Similar rules of procedure govern the Federal Trade Commission...
Though medical researchers are still not sure how fats in the diet affect artery disease and the risk of heart attacks, practicing physicians are not waiting for final answers. More and more doctors believe that it is wise anyway to reduce the amount of fats and related substances, notably cholesterol, in their patients' bloodstreams. Last week Cincinnati's. William S. Merrell Co. announced that it is start ing general distribution of a cholesterol-cutting chemical just approved (for prescription sale only) by the Food and Drug Administration. The chemical: triparanol, trade-named MER/2^. The makers claim that...
...simple. All it has is a core of coiled-up RNA surrounded by a cylindrical jacket made of protein molecules. Tsugita and Fraenkel-Conrat first stripped off the jacket by use of a protein-dissolving chemical. Then they treated the naked RNA with nitrous acid, which is known to affect the RNA's code-carrying bases. After the nitrous acid had. acted, the RNA was enabled to clothe itself in a new coat of protein. This made it a functioning virus again, and when it was injected into a tobacco plant, it multiplied in the plant's cells...
...changes voted by the board also affect the youngest member of TIME INC.'S family, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. Sidney L. James, 53, SI's managing editor since 1954, its first year of publication, succeeds Publisher Arthur R. Murphy, 44, who was elected a vice president of TIME INC. with the assignment of director of production. Assistant Managing Editor Andre Laguerre, 45, moves up to managing editor...
...Since neither was listed as attorney in the case, the FPC examiner who had recommended the increase wanted to know what they had done for the money. Said Tennessee Gas Vice President Ronald McVey: "When either of them encounters any situation which they believe would affect the company's welfare, they immediately advise the company and recommend a course of action to be pursued ... He [Corcoran] keeps the company advised of all governmental developments, be they legislative, administrative, or judicial on both national and state levels. It is my opinion and that of the management that the legal services...