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Because of their varying speeds, the compounds that constitute the metabolic products are segregated. As each compound emerges-in order of its speed through the column-it is sensed by an ionization detector and recorded on a graph as a distinct peak. Within minutes, all of the compounds have passed through the chromatograph, each forming its own peak on the graph. Since the metabolic products of each strain of bacteria contain different chem ical compounds, each chromatogram forms an easily identifiable profile...
...loads and greater utilization of planes, the profits on military flights are not much lower than on civilian ones. Biggest military-airlift supplier is Pan Am, which already has 16 of its 100 jets on Viet Nam duty under a $44 million contract. Pan Am has cut its summer-peak transatlantic schedule from 288 to 266 flights a week...
...many extremes of asceticism were developed because, for some reason, drugs ceased to be available. But, to the orthodox Christian, "technological" or "chemical" mysticism is either blasphemous or absurd. The man who gets to a mountaintop in a funicular has the same view as the man who climbs the peak, but the effort of getting there is important too; the vision is not all, and manuals of contemplation often advise against paying too much attention to "beauty." Indeed the Christian concept of grace-never earned, never under man's control-seems to nullify the idea that...
Ryun has run faster since. Distance runners traditionally do not reach their peak before their mid-20s-Britain's Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4-min. barrier in 1954, and France's Michel Jazy, the current record holder, is 30. Ryun, at the tender age of 19, is already the second-fastest miler in history. In this month's Compton Invitational track meet at Los Angeles, he sped the distance in 3 min. 53.7 sec.-just .1 sec. off Jazy's world record. Afterward, he complained mildly that the official who was supposed...
Good fortune obviously could not stay at that astronomical peak-and it didn't. Marichal won 22 games in 1964; he also spent weeks in traction with a pinched nerve in his back. Even that was a minor crisis compared with The Incident of 1965, when for the first time anyone can remember Juan Marichal lost his cool completely-thereby endangering another man's life and his own career...