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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...that stereotyped U.S. culture is not easily defended: "This mass reduction of human dignity makes me sick." But he hastened to absolve the U.S. of disseminating vulgarity throughout the rest of the West: "If it fails to resist it, [Europe] must look to its own weaknesses and its own form of spiritual flabbiness. Now you are catching up with us! All Europe is drunk with the same poison!" Up stepped Gamesman Potter to tweak Uncle Sam's nose amidst general merriment. He quoted from a manual for U.S. cemetery-plot salesmen: "It's better to have a plot...
...long have you been saved? Do you accept the account of the creation of the world and man as recorded in Genesis? Do you recognize a position in Wheaton College as a divine calling to Christian service? Have you used tobacco, alcoholic beverages or narcotic drugs in any form within the past year, or danced or played cards or attended the theater or moving-picture theater? The wrong answer to any question automatically eliminates the candidate...
...Already the most remarkable swimmer the world has ever known, Australia's Latvia-born John Konrads, 17, thrashed through a Sydney pool to lower his world record for 220 yds. by .3 sec. with a time of 2:01.9, round into form for his ambitious attempt this month to capture or better every world freestyle record from 100 meters on up. In all but four events (100 meters, 110 yds., 200 meters, 400 meters), Konrads will be swimming against himself, since he already holds every other record...
...virus was that of Stewart-Eddy polyoma, named for N.I.H.'s Drs. Sarah Stewart and Bernice Eddy (TIME, July 27). Team members stripped the protein overcoat from the virus particles to get the nuclear content. This proved to be a form of deoxyribonucleic acid, which has an enormously complex structure with a molecular weight of 2,000,000 or more...
...self-propagating cells, some form of DNA is the template that determines what form the daughter cells will take after subdivision. For cancer research, the significance of the polyoma-DNA work is that it showed how foreign DNA, invading normal cells, can upset their reproduction so that cancerous offspring result...