Word: errors
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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MONGOLISM. Now that the number of chromosomes in human cells is established at 46, correcting a long-held error, variations from the normal are showing up in more and more inborn defects. Dr. Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith of Johns Hopkins reported that in Mongolism, where an extra chromosome has been found, the anomaly appears to be the result of a failure in subdivision, traceable to the maternal egg. In a wide range of sex abnormalities related to hermaphroditism. the number of chromosomes may range from 45 to 48. Among the anomalies, "super females" with three X (female) chromosomes...
...remain in vain, we will be led to conclude a unilateral treaty of peace with the Democratic German Republic." And what of Western rights in Berlin and the null allied garrison? Khrushchev acted as though the garrison was the only instrument of Western power, and his venom matched his error. "If they are to prepare for war," he bellowed, "I wish they were half a million. It would be that much easier to leave them there and encircle them...
...When I tell people I'm from Wayne State University," jokes one professor, "they usually answer, 'Ah, yes. Fort Wayne, Indiana.' " The error is unlikely to persist. Not only has Detroit's fast-growing Wayne (21,260 students) become the nation's 16th-biggest university, but few other state schools are getting better so fast. The secret is that Detroit, auto maker to the nation, is in the midst of a cultural revolution. And no one is hungrier for intellectual horsepower than Wayne's students, the sons and daughters of the men who build...
...Nobody, they caution, "should buy the market," even when it is going up. Says Belmont Towbin, partner of the highly successful Wall Street underwriting firm of C. E. Unterberg, Towbin Co. (TIME, April 13, 1959): "The general movement of the stock market is the result of many variables. An error in judgment on any single variable can lead to the wrong conclusion...
...Murder Box. Near book's end, Hoess says reflectively: "I see now that the extermination of the Jews was fundamentally wrong," not because it was morally monstrous, but simply as an error in tactics that brought "the hatred of the entire world" on Germany. Another statement of Hoess's makes it more difficult for the Germans who claim that they saw, heard or knew no evil of the murder camps. Says he: "When a strong wind was blowing, the stench of burning flesh was carried for many miles and caused the whole neighborhood to talk about the burning...