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...life in the labs; among other changes, it can no longer colonize in human or animal intestinal tracts. Biologist H. William Smith, an expert on infectious diseases in animals, suggests that the deliberate creation of an infectious E. coli K-12 would require 20 years. University of Alabama Geneticist Roy Curtiss III has developed an even more feeble strain. Back in 1974, Curtiss urged a halt to experiments designed to create new combinations of DNA in E. coli. Now Curtiss says research with the K-12 strain poses "no danger whatsoever...
Still, writes Author Roy Hoopes, "1 doubt if the nation has ever been as united in spirit or purpose before or since." Hoopes interviewed nearly 200 Americans for this oral history of the home front. Many of them speak wonderingly of an almost innocent exhilaration triggered by World War II, and how different it was from Viet Nam. Says Stephen Ailes, who came up from Martinsburg, W. Va., to serve in the Office of Price Administration: "You just routinely worked till midnight; you worked Saturdays. You always had in mind the fact that all these guys were in foxholes someplace...
...Roy S. Neuberger North Woodmere...
...very confident," she says. "I don't disappear." She goes to her office each day and continues to make last-minute changes on her autobiography, If at first . . ., which is due out in the fall. After firing two other attorneys, she has now settled on Roy Cohn, the onetime investigator for Communist-hunting Senator Joseph McCarthy. "1 know he is controversial," says Adela. "but he treats me like a human being." On 70 charges of second-degree larceny in the New York indictment alone, she could be sentenced to a total of 490 years in jail, not counting...
...Died. Roy Crane, 75, comic-strip cartoonist and creator of Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer; in Orlando, Fla. His swashbuckling grocery clerk, Washington Tubbs II, is credited with bringing adventure to the bland funny papers of the '20s when he fell in love with Tango the tiger tamer. Though other artists adopted Tubbs and Friend Captain Easy, Crane collaborated on Navy Pilot Buz until his death...