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Australia's crisp Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, 61, is the ideal scientist: his curiosity continually leads him into new areas of study, and his determination usually keeps him in each long enough to come up with answers. Eleven years ago. when Burnet began to concentrate on the immunological intolerance of the human body -rejection by one body of invading material from another-he already was an authority on influenza, leukemia and viruses. His efforts in these fields won him a U.S. Lasker Award, appointment by Queen Elizabeth to Britain's Order of Merit,* and a reputation so high...
...Marvel. Burnet shared his Nobel, worth $43,625, with towering (6 ft. 4½ in.) British Zoologist Peter Brian Medawar, who has been working on tissue transplants for the past 17 years. Experimenting with laboratory animals, Medawar was among the first to describe the mechanism of the puzzling "rejection reaction"-the process by which the human body develops antibodies similar to those it uses against viruses and bacteria to reject and destroy tissue transplants intended to replace diseased parts...
...grand old man of U.S. advertising, Stanley Burnet Resor, 81, stepped down last week after 44 years as chief executive officer of J. Walter Thompson Co., the biggest advertising agency in the world...
...Arthur Jansen, partner in W. E. Burnet & Co.: "The market is too high. At these levels it would take a couple of years for the improvement in earnings to catch up with market prices. If someone came to me with money to invest, I'd advise putting part of it in the bank...
Sinker. In Burnet, Texas, Dave Hawk took a commanding lead in the state bass-fishing tournament, reached shore, was given a summons by a game warden for catching too many fish...