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...Ralph McClintock Dover, Mass...
...animals can send out such unconscious messages, do humans have the same skills? Perhaps, say some researchers. One tantalizing clue comes from "menstrual synchrony," the common phenomenon of women who are close friends, or live together. In 1971 University of Chicago Psychologist Martha McClintock, then at Harvard, tested 135 women and showed that the menstrual cycles of friends and roommates moved from an average of 8.5 days apart to less than 5 days during a school year...
...actor, Wayne could only play one role- himself. They called him larger than life, and his ungainly bulk probably had a lot to do with that. He towered over Injuns, Nips, and Gooks. Most of Wayne's movies had one-word titles-McClintock, Branigan, McQ, Chisum, Stagecoach- so that his legions of addled fans could remember them. And his movies were all Black and White; Panavision never brought the colorings of moral ambiguity to these flicks. You were a baddie or you were a goodie; those who opposed the Duke were deranged sadists who frequently...
...Barbara McClintock, geneticist, Doctor of Science...
...McClintock, who won the 1970 National Medal of Science, is best known for her experiments on the genetics of corn, which appear in many genetics textbooks to explain basic principles in genetic theory. Born in Hartford, Conn., she received her graduate and undergraduate training in botany at Cornell. She has taught at the University of Missouri, served on scientific boards, written numerous articles in biological journals, and now works in Washington's Carnegie Institution...