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George Gamow, noted science writer and professor of Physics at the University of Colorado, will discuss the "Origin of the Universe" tonight in Burr B at 8 p.m. The lecture is sponsored by Natural Sciences 5 and the Department of Biology...
...heredity-the delicately complex deoxyribonucleic acid known as DNA-has been extracted virtually intact from human sperm for the first time by Doctors Ellen Borenfreund and Aaron Bendich. The "almost impossible" feat promises to shed new light on the transmission of hereditary traits in mammals and on the origin of genetic abnormalities. After experiments with the sperm of fish and fowl, rabbits and bulls, the Manhattan researchers carefully washed the human sperm to rid it of enzymes, then treated the DNA tough protein topcoat with a chemical that freed the 400,000 chainlike DNA molecules for examination...
...Young Michael was heir to every misery that could afflict a boy: bad teeth, bad eyes, failure and constant canings at school, disgrace in his first wretched jobs, and the horror of a miserly, sententious and drunken father. James Joyce's squalid boyhood in Dublin was a princely origin compared with the Tartarean depths of little Mick O'Donovan's life in Cork. Yet by some miracle-or rather two of them -the grown man manages to present not a foul autopsy on his dead life but a gay ballad at his own wake...
Mayr is the author of Systematics and the Origin of the Species and Methods and Principles of Systematic Zoology...
...laboratory research assistant; his fiancée had a job in the municipal administration. From a list posted on the institute wall he learned that he had been ordered to a factory in remote Inner Mongolia for at least five years. He was not surprised. Of bourgeois origin, he was an 'expert' indeed, but not 'Red' enough to remain in Shanghai, a city that is still suspected of bourgeois and cosmopolitan proclivities. 'I shall work wherever the authorities decide I can be most useful to the country,' he kept repeating. 'My fiancee understands...