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.
He was pushed. Agnew had been indicted for tax evasion in 1973; this was separate and independent of the Watergate investigation of President Nixon. In the summer of 1973, the United States' Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland investigated Agnew for what they quickly discovered to be more than just cause.