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they're doing.

Lasker:

Learning in English what they're doing.

Q:

Well, now, this is also a problem with the Russians, isn't it?

Lasker:

Yes, it's very hard. Nobody knows enough Russian to read a medical paper in Russian. I can sometimes read a French paper, because the words are very similar. New drugs and new ideas are quite easy to read about in French.

Q:

But these other languages are more difficult.

Lasker:

Beyond me completely.

Q:

Well, now, to tie in with that, you might say something more about the June visit to California and the President's cancer panel meeting, Armand Hammer. . .

Lasker:

He was chairman of it.

Q:

Tell me about that.

Lasker:

Well, Armand is very interested in virology now and in monoclonal antibodies.





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