NEWS Jewry's Fate Shape d Career, Scientist Says . JEWELERS INC. Designs That Are Wearable Art "First, get your window right, then everything else in the room falls into place." Rome (JTA) — Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, who recent- ly shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology with American biochemist Stanley Cohen, comes from a family of Italian Jewish intellectuals in Turin. Now, at 77, this small, elegant, bright-eyed woman recalls first hearing the expression "freethinker" from her father, Prof. Gius- sepe Levi, at the age of three. That and deeply ingrained feminism — her idol, she says, was Simone de Beauvoir — defined her life and work. But her distinguished career was also shaped by the people and events that marked the fate of the Jewish people in this century. Her family left Italy to escape the stultifying and repressive atmosphere of Mussolini's fascism. They lived in Belgium for a time, but when the Nazis invaded in 1940, they fled back to Ita- ly. Because she was Jewish she was denied employment and research facilities. though she already held a Doctorate. Because of the family's op- position to fascism, they were forced to live clandestinely in Florence under the assumed name of Lovisato, from "southern Italy,- a disguise belied by their northern Italian accent. In a makeshift laboratory. set up in her bedroom, Levi- Montalcini conducted ex- periments secretly during the war years' She begged for eggs for needy children" from farmers and extracted the embryos for her work. The results of her experi- ments went unpublished in fascist, Italy because "she belonged to the Jewish race.- Recognition came in post- war Italy and in the U.S.. where she went in 1947 to ac- cept a teaching and research post with Prof. Viktor Ham- burger at Washington Uni- versity in St. Louis, Mo. Levi-Montalcini was the first woman admitted to the Pontifical Academy of Science and, in 1968, the sixth woman to gait admittance to the American Academy of Science. Long bel ore getting the Nobel Prize, sh won two major in- ternatio prizes, the Medicinei Lrinelli in 1969 and the St. Vi scent in 1_970. Her Nobel Prize stemmed from work completed in the U.S. in 1951: discovery of N G F. a protein growth factor that stimulates nerve cell development. It was the result, she says. of an intui- tion best described in a Latin proverb which states that there is physiological connec- tion between a sound mind and a sound body. The discovery. and parallel work by Cohen, hold out promise that cures can be found for Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, which attack the human nervous system. It has also led to fur- ther research on the relation between nerve cells and the immunological defense system. 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The office was established after talks between HMO Di- rector-General Dr. Samuel Penchas and Dr. Ephraim Sneh, head of the Civilian Ad- ministration and also a physi- cian, on the increasingly close ties between medical and ad- ministrative personnel of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center at Ein Karem and the Hadassah University Hospital on Mount Scopus and their counterparts in hospitals and clinics serving the Arab population of the West Bank. Sneh said that while medi- cal services in Judaea and Samaria are adequate, pa- tients requiring more com- plex diagnosis and treatment are referred to Hadassah facilities in increasing numbers. The new liaison of- fice was created to speed registration and transfer of such patients and to provide another avenue of contact and cooperation among doc- tors and administrators in Jerusalem and on the West Bank. Penchas noted that Hadas- sah doctors frequently visit clinics in Hebron, Ramallah, Beit Jallah and other West Bank settlements and that Hadassah specialists in surgery, pediatrics and hema- tology regularly serve as ad- visors on complicated cases at clinics in Judaea and Samaria. Arab physicians also visit Hadassah hospitals to observe treatment tech- niques and to keep current on latest advances in research and patient care. A group of 30 admini- strators from hospitals in Judaea and Samaria recently visited the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center to discuss opportunities for closer cooperation between their institutions and the HMO.