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...bodies move through its protoplasm, and inside the nucleus reside the powerful chromosomes, which most geneticists believe are like a chemical oligarchy controlling the activities of a chemical nation. If the cell is a fertilized egg, the chromosomes possess all the information needed to build the cell into a bug or a whale...
Battle Against Bugs. Aerosol owes its existence to the anopheles mosquito. During World War II two young Department of Agriculture scientists, Lyle D. Goodhue and William N. Sullivan Jr., developed the "bug bomb" to kill mosquitoes. The Government got the patent on aerosol (it still licenses, free, all marketers of aerosol insecticides); Scientists Goodhue and Sullivan got nothing...
Russell Lee Swanson, an ex-G.I. with training at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Merion, Pa.'s Barnes Foundation, started out as a science-fiction bug, was converted to the submarine world almost as soon as he donned his first face mask five years ago at Star Island, N.H. Says Swimmer Swanson: "Why bother going into space or to another planet when there is another world right beneath the waves, and one that is much more accessible in my lifetime." Unlike Cardinal, who sketches on dry land, Swanson has worked out a technique for drawing...
Argentine Dictator Juan Peron, a racing bug and sponsor of Driver Fangio, got so enthusiastic about Maserati racers in 1954 that he handed Adolfo Orsi a $3,000,000 machine-tool order to help speed Argentine industrialization. In turn, Adolfo enthusiastically allowed Peron three years to pay. A year later, when Peron was ousted, Argentina had paid only a fraction of its bill, all in wheat to the Italian government, which has yet to convert it into cash for Maserati. To top it off, Adolfo took on another $437,500 machine-tool order from the Spanish government-which has also...
...Bigger Bug. Germany's Bavarian Motor Works has put on the market a five-passenger mate to its two-passenger Isetta 300. In addition to the door opening from the car's front, the new Isetta 600 has a rear curbside door and back seat, is 21 in. longer (115 in. overall) than the 300 model. Its air-cooled engine has two cylinders to the 300's one, doubling horsepower to 26, though gasoline consumption of up to 58 m.p.g. is about the same. U.S. price...