Word: chandra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Association of African and Afro-American Students last week elected Hubert E. Sapp '67 of Eliot House and Augusta, Georgia, president for 1966-67. Other officers elected were Gall Snowden '67, vice-president, Chandra Saldi '67, secretary, and Robert C. Scott '67, treasurer. Also elected to the executive committee were Charles J. Hamilton '69, Jeffrey P. Howard '69, Charles F. Lovell '68, and Elvin Montgomery...
Writing in Nature, Physicist Clyde Cowan of Catholic University of America, along with Geophysicist Chandra Atluri and Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Willard Libby of U.C.L.A., offer the most ingenious theory so far. After disposing of previous guesses (If it was a meteor, where is the crater? If it was a comet, why was it not seen approaching?), Libby & Co. suggest that what caused the big bang may well have been a hunk of antimatter that must have wandered into the solar system from some distant galaxy...
...exciting goal: selection of the sex of an infant before conception. But how to separate sperm that produce female offspring from those that produce males? Various methods, such as the use of electric fields or care ful temperature control, produced only minimal results. Then, in India, Zoologist Bhairab Chandra Bhattacharya noticed that the upper portion of a sperm sample tended to breed more bulls; the lower portion gave more cows. Apparently this was because the sperm that produce female offspring are heavier than those that produce males and sank to the bottom of the solution...
Died. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, 80, India's autocratic Chief Minister of West Bengal, including Calcutta, since 1948, a bachelor, who as Mahatma Gandhi's personal physician kept his patient alive during the freedom fasts by sugaring his orange juice; of a stroke; in Calcutta...