Word: extinctionism
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Such reversals had already been found to have coincided with the extinction of many species of plants and animals (TIME, Nov. 30). This led Durrani and Khan to speculate about what kind of event could cause the reversals and wreak the other damage at the same time. They concluded that...
> Long before ecology became fashionable, a Finnish mink breeder named Emil Hoglund began his drive to protect spotted cats. Finding a mutant female mink with pale brown spots on its white fur, he carefully bred it with a normal mink. After nine years of inbreeding, Hoglund had produced a new...
Eventually, Colombo engineered a truce between the warring Mafia factions. At the same time he added to his power in another way. Two of the Mafia bosses, Joe Bonanno and Joe Magliocco, decided to let a contract for the extinction of three of their rivals: Carlo Gambino and Thomas Lucchese...
The Great Hunt. The mustang, which helped tame the West, is facing extinction for obvious reasons: it long ago became outmoded by trains, automobiles and farm machinery. Not worth preserving as game for hunters because it is too easy to track and kill, and not worth preserving for domestic use...
* Marvin Watson, a Texas oilman and former high aide to President Johnson, told United Steelworkers President l.W. Abel last month not to waste money trying to re-elect Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris. Watson's implication was that oilmen have marked Harris, a former Democratic national chairman, for political extinction...