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Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, another Committee member, noted, "We all feel very badly about the decision"; but added, "Harvard cannot give in on discrimination one inch on this or any other occasion." Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President, echoed Perkins' opinion. "The question is what does Harvard really stand for when the chips are down," he said...
THOSE odd-shaped objects in the background of this week's TIME cover are viruses-magnified more than 50,000 times and reproduced in their actual shape by machine and man. The viruses, which are measured in millionths of an inch, were first photographed by an electron microscope that produces an enlarged image of minute particles through the use of a beam of electrons. Working from electron-micrograph prints, Artist Bernard Safran enlarged the viruses somewhat more to obtain the proper effect for the cover. Among those he chose to use, the sticklike viruses at upper left...
...Nehru was frankly horrified by Russia's resumption of nuclear testing, he clung to the argument that the U.S. should agree to a new testing moratorium, even without inspection safeguards against cheating. On only one basic issue did Nehru shift his position-and then, only by about an inch. "The President and the Prime Minister," said their joint communiqué, "concurred in the legitimate and necessary right of access to Berlin." But Nehru would not affirm the West's right to maintain troops in West Berlin...
...appeared in 1938: the electron microscope, in which beams of electrons are focused sharply enough to take photographs of objects less than a millionth of an inch across. This made many virus particles visualizable-and another Rockefeller fellow had something to visualize. Indiana-born Wendell Stanley went back to Beijerinck's favorite, the tobacco mosaic virus, or TMV, and spent years in a Princeton laboratory cooking down a ton of sickly tobacco leaves, filtering and re-filtering, dissolving and redissolving, until he had isolated the cause of this economically costly disease. What he had to show for years...
Stanley thus gave a crystal-clear answer to the question: What is TMV? Electron micrographs showed thin rod-shaped crystals, little more than a hundred-thousandth of an inch long. This answer raised an intriguing new question. Is a virus animate or inanimate, living or dead, animal or mineral? Dr. Stanley's way out of the dilemma is to broaden the definition of "living'' to include any particles that are capable of reproducing or replicating themselves. That covers viruses...