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Banda is just as emphatically his own man on Africa-wide matters. Last week Diallo Telli, Guinea's leftist secretary-general of the Organization of African Unity, was in Malawi for Banda's inauguration when he suddenly found some of his pet schemes under scathing attack during a Banda press conference. "I didn't fight the British to exchange British imperialism for Eastern imperialism," Banda snapped. Then looking Telli straight in the eye, Banda shouted: "I mean that! I'm saying that because you are here. You can expel Malawi from the O.A.U." As Telli shrank...
...Gallerie La Salita. He is Richard Serra, 27, whose credentials include a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale and a Fulbright fellowship; he is currently deep in his zoo period. On exhibit were crude cages in which disport two turtles, two quail, a rabbit, a hen, two guinea pigs and a 97-lb. sow. The big pig oinks away as part of a work called Live Pig Cage I. "I'm not saying the pig is art or is not art," says the artist, "but she makes a form." Other goodies on view include a stuffed ocelot...
Bloch found that by exposing cancer cells from a mouse to guinea pig antibodies, he could protect the malignant growths from the guinea pig's other defenses. Although he focused his study on a single type of cancer, he said yesterday that the results "could apply equally well to a whole host of tumors in animals...
When harmful material enters the body of a guinea pig, he said, the animal secretes at least two chemical antibodies, called gamma-1 and gamma-2. The gamma-2 molecule acts rapidly to attach itself to the walls of tumor cells. and with the aid of chemicals in the blood it breaks open the cell membrane, often killing the cancer...
...darkest Africa last February when he bumped into an old acquaintance: U.S. Ambassador to Kenya William Attwood. Seizing the opportunity, Cowles offered Attwood a job as editorial director of Cowles publications. Attwood was hesitant about accepting; he had scored a distinct success in Kenya, as he had earlier in Guinea, by practicing a quiet, cheerful diplomacy, by never forcing his views on Africans and by always listening to theirs. He had even survived a bad bout of polio and returned to the job as zestful as ever...