Hemoglobin is an iron-containing protein found in the blood of nearly all vertebrates and many invertebrates. It transports oxygen from the lungs or gills of an animal to the tissues. Four polypeptide chains, each wrapped in a specific way around its own heme group, make up the hemoglobin molecule.
Correction Appended. Alger Hiss, the erudite diplomat and Harvard-trained government lawyer who was convicted of perjury in an espionage case that became one of the great riddles of the Cold War, died yesterday at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. He was 92 and lived in Manhattan.
The Espionage Act was repealed on December 13, 1920; this also repealed the Sedition Act. Those convicted under the Sedition Act were freed shortly after the war. Attorney general A. Mitchell Palmer advocated renewing the Acts, but this effort-like his presidential campaign-was doomed to failure.