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...antibodies, ready to attack any later enemies. Hence immunity. Pauling and Campbell made their artificial pneumonia antibodies from serum globulin extracted from beef blood. Steps in the process: 1) the globulin molecules were heated to 135° F. for two weeks to make their structures "unfold"; 2) a complex sugar secreted by the pneumonia type III bacteria was added to the flask; 3) the solution was slowly cooled so that the molecules folded up again. But influenced by the bacterial sugar, the folding molecules assumed a modified structure in the flask, just as they would in the blood stream. Thus...
Faced with the complex problem of planning for the free hours of the near thousand at the Business School, the Association now finds new and pressing problems rising out of the war changes. Housing, once a simple matter for a school blessed with large, modern dorms, now assumed the proportions of a problem which every man in the crowded halls must face. The association is in charge of room assignments as well as being in control of food, publications and other vital components of business school life...
...American industry. A fighting force of thirteen million men will absorb practically all men eligible for college training. Without students there can be no universities, but college facilities, like those of industry, can be converted for war. If the modern Army calls for men acquainted with machines and complex technical apparatus, the colleges must provide them. If modern war calls for men sufficiently versed in their history to know for what they fight, the colleges can supply them...
...Junior's remote ancestors used to potshoot Brahmans to relieve an inferiority complex because he himself was born in a lower caste. His grandfather was a horse-racing hellion. His father was forced to abdicate after a scandal with the dancing girl Mumtaz Begum, but later settled down with his third wife, the sari-wearing Nancy Miller, Seattle sorority girl. Junior also married an American girl, the former Mrs. Margaret Lawler Branyen, after his first wife died. She is now ill in Santa Barbara. With his wives Junior carried on rural uplift work which gave the Untouchables...
...reached, perhaps by the British Government inviting suggestions from commissioners appointed by the Governments of the United States, the U.S.S.R. and China, such suggestions to be made after conference with Indian leaders. Such articles as yours are extremely useful in helping American readers to understand the very complex problems involved...