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...synthesis of a prostaglandin known to cause fever in cats. In another, Dr. Vane and his colleagues Sergio Ferreira and Salvador Moncada found that aspirin blocked the release of prostaglandins in a dog's spleen that had been removed and kept functioning artificially. In a third, Drs. John Brian Smith and Anthony Willis showed that aspirin prevented production of prostaglandins in human blood platelets...
...Jesse Carlyle) Snead, 29, a nephew of Golfing Great Sam Snead and a onetime minor league outfielder who was No. 112 on the P.G.A. money list last year, made himself $52,000 richer by finishing No. 1 in both the Tucson and Doral-Eastern Opens. Then Brian Allin, 26, a redheaded rookie who weighs all of 145 Ibs., won the $38,000 top prize in the Greater Greensboro Open. Hubert Green, 24, yet another rookie, made off with $25,000 by winning the Houston Invitational...
Their feelings are expressed by former scientist-astronaut Brian O'Leary in his book, The Making of an Ex-Astronaut (Houghton Mifflin). O'Leary denounces what he calls the undisguised "test-pilot dominance" at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center. Largely at the insistence of Donald K. ("Deke") Slayton, the influential director of flight-crew operations, only experienced military and civilian fliers have been chosen for Apollo crews. Such skilled aviators were surely essential on the first space flights. But now that flight and landing techniques are well developed and scientific experimentation has come to the fore...
Scoggins (rowing 5), LaBarre (3), and Baker (2) will join stroke Bill Hobbs, Dave Mitchell (7), Dave Sawyier (6), Brian Johnson (4), and Bill Mahoney (bow). Tom Tiffany is the coxswain...
...Americans expect perfection in America. Europeans expect perfection in America. We all have indulged in the game of picking apart a great nation. Brian McGuire's youthful and valid protests of 1968 have developed into a wisdom we should all heed: "Nothing is ever 100%." God bless the American protesters for ideals that the entire world, not just America, should listen to and emulate...