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Responsible for handling the vast bulk of the $900 million in ECA funds with which the U.S. has kept Austria alive since the war, Joham's Creditanstalt built up a complex labyrinth of foreign holding and trading companies (including some in New York which were forced to return $1,000,000 in overcharges for ECA goods in 1950, another listed as owned by Joham's son in London, another in France half-owned by the son). Under Joham's management, the Creditanstalt struck large and questionable deals with Soviet and satellite traders, e.g., lard bought with...
After a luncheon for 142 in Pittsburgh last week Carrier Corp.'s President Lloud* Wampler flipped a switch which turned on the world's biggest private air-conditioning system: a $5,000,000 complex which cools 68 floors in the three-building Gateway Center in Pittsburgh's new Golden Triangle of modern office buildings. It was a fitting event, for last week Carrier also celebrated the 50th anniversary of the air-conditioning industry fathered by its founder, Willis Carrier...
...human body is by analyzing the structure of proteins, of which the vital parts of all living creatures are made. The job is complicated by the fact that the typical protein molecule is built up of hundreds or thousands of amino-acid-units which link together in complex ways. They form long chains, they branch, they tangle, they join together in rings. Even to identify the amino acids in a simple protein is a difficult task for the most skillful chemist. To figure how they are arranged in the protein molecule has baffled chemists completely. At last week...
Dave, a philosophy major, now says he thought ruefully as he fell of the Greek concept of hubris-the Icarus complex that drives men to overweening aspirations. Being a practical physicist, Jim sank his ax handle in the solid snow and held on for dear life...
...mean and hard as the rocky Connecticut land he farms. His daughter Josie is "misbegotten" because she weighs 180 Ibs. and stands 5 ft. n, "a big, rough, ugly cow of a woman." Landlord Jim Tyrone is "misbegotten" in the catalogue of Sigmund Freud; he has an Oedipus complex...