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This is no Brave New World deliberately presented as a nightmare by a novelist, but the proposal outlined last week in all seriousness by Nobelist Hermann J. Muller to the American Institute of Biological Sciences. It is medical progress itself, said Indiana University's Geneticist Muller, that has made such steps not only desirable but necessary. In former days, he argued, the harsh processes of natural selection kept the human species on the upgrade, but now modern medicine keeps alive the bearers of defective genes and enables them to reproduce...
...Said Muller: "A lower-than-average native intelligence becomes ever less of a hindrance in surviving and having children, and so does a lower-than-average endowment of genes conducive to mutual aid and socially useful behavior . . . The principle of the equal sacredness of every life applied to man is ultimately incompatible not only with his progress but even with his survival...
...Muller fears that radiation-typically in atomic work or in high-altitude or space flight-could become an important source of defective human genes. He offered a two-part prescription. "A highly preferred position in regard to radiation protection" should be given the younger two-thirds of the population. And a seminal Fort Knox should be established for deep-frozen storage of the germ cells of men about to be exposed to more than average radiation...
...argue with Jehovah's Witnesses, Roman Catholics were warned last week in the Jesuit weekly America. "Unprepared Catholics," wrote Albert Muller of the Catholic Evidence Guild, would accomplish little and might endanger their own faith: ''While the Witnesses' view of the Bible is a distorted one, the deplorable lack of knowledge that a Catholic is likely to have of the Holy Scriptures puts him at a serious disadvantage...
Although Terry Bartolet did some good passing and Ravenel sparked a last minute drive into the scoring column, that was just about it for the Crimson. Yale intercepted two more passes, including a magnificent defensive play by Muller on a Bartolet toss for Hank Hatch. Hatch was behind his man, and the pass was over the Eli halfback's head, but Muller saved almost sure touchdown with a perfectly timed leap...