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...Fatal Mistake. As portrayed by most singers, Lulu has the morals of an alley cat and the tastes of the Marquis de Sade: in three acts she destroys three husbands before making the fatal mistake of picking up Jack the Ripper on a London street. Coloratura Carroll saw Lulu differently-as a kind of child of nature whose body enslaved her. To make her point, small (5 ft. 4 in.), shapely Coloratura Carroll appeared in some of the wispiest costumes ever seen on a Hannover stage. Her performance was consistently convincing, and her singing-even in the treacherous passages...
...basic components of many proteins) and is in danger of severe mental retardation. Treatment consists simply of giving the child foods that are specially processed to remove phenylalanine. In galactosemia. the inability to convert galactose (which the body derives from milk) to glucose, untreated infants are prey to fulminating, fatal infections, and survivors suffer severe physical and mental retardation and blindness. The answer is to cut out milk, or anything containing the galactose molecule...
While PKU is rare (once in 25,000 births) and galactosemia is probably even rarer, one in every 16 U.S. infants is born with some defect, many of which, untreated, may be handicapping or fatal, said O'Connor. And the scientists are closing in on other disorders suspected of being transmitted by genes, the giant molecules of heredity: diabetes, gout, some forms of mongolism, cretinism, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, the inability to make protective antibodies against bacteria, and many other disorders of the blood, besides obvious physical defects...
...Pauling is especially interested in molecular malformations in the blood. At the California Institute of Technology, where his work on molecule structure got him a 1954 Nobel Prize, he and Dr. Harvey Itano have gone far to explain sickle-cell anemia, which is usually debilitating and may be fatal, and afflicts many U.S. Negroes and vast numbers in Africa. The disease got its name because the deoxygenated red cells in the veins lose their globular shape (they look normal in the arteries) and take a crescent or sickle form. The Pauling team found that this was because of a minute...
Tender Is the Night. Director Henry King and Scenarist Ivan Moffat have made a slickly commercial, bleakly melancholy movie out of F. Scott Fitzgerald's story of a man emasculated by a fatal desire to please. Jason Robards Jr. plays the moral eunuch with All-American charm...