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...three most salient drug advances of the 20th century, vitamins, hormonal medicine and antibacterial "wonder" drugs, the first continues to lead the list in everyday importance. Last week Dr. Casimir Funk, the quiet biochemist whose research ranged through two of these fields and led him to the discovery of vitamins in 1911, died of cancer at 83 in Albany...
...people are any longer executed for political crimes, but the legacy of Stalinism has made an enduring impression on the everyday lives of most Russians. In the fourth volume of his memoirs, entitled Post-War Years: 1945-54, Novelist Ilya Ehrenburg wrote that "it is far easier to change policy and the economic system than to alter human consciousness." Russians, said Ehrenburg, who died in September, "have been unable to divest themselves of a sense of constriction, of fear, of casuistry, of survivals from the past." Today, most Russians long only for a quiet life, a little more freedom...
...demand a recount." One of his aims was to spoil John Lindsay's chances: to Buckley, nothing is more reprehensible than a liberal Republican, because he has diluted conservative doctrine. His politics largely formed by the neat formulations of books rather than by the messy maneuverings of everyday life, Buckley would like to see a clear-cut ideological division between the two parties: all the conservatives in the Republican Party, all the liberals in the Democratic. Today's unwieldy, ideologically impure parties, somehow absorbing all sorts of seemingly incompatible groups, profoundly offend him. As Barry Goldwater told...
...effectively as a blow on the head or a hand on the throat. Yet the chemical wears off after about 30 minutes, leaving no lasting aftereffects. In New Haven, Police Chief Francis McManus found it "highly effective" in quelling the mob. The Mace has also been use ful in everyday police work. In the year it has been used in Columbus, Ohio, says Chief Robert Baus, attacks on policemen have dropped...
...Chesapeake card games and political fisticuffs back home, and he returned occasionally to refresh his memory. In 1848, when the U.S. was at war with Mexico, he painted his War News from Mexico. From the shirt-sleeved fellow shouting out the story, to the little Negro girl in her everyday dress and the deaf old patriarch in his straight-backed chair, Woodville perfectly captured the sense of awe and thrill of pride surrounding the derring-do down South. Americans apparently thought so too-they bought 14,000 prints of the painting...