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...gene. If both ram and ewe have two such genes, all their lambs will have scrapie. If one animal has the genes but its mate has none, the "clear" genes will dominate, and the lambs will have no disease. Dr. Parry is still checking a theory that if both parent animals have a single scrapie gene, one out of four of their lambs should get the disease...
...When wily Royal Little, 65, stepped down as chief executive officer of Textron Inc. last year, it was part of a plan to make room for younger men at the top. Last week Little surrendered another job: the presidency of Textron Electronics, 76% owned by the parent company. In as Little's replacement and chief executive officer went tweedy, relaxed Robert Gustav Tabors, 46 a former Textron vice president. Tabors' prime goal at Textron Electronics: to diversify its product line within the electronics field...
...seats a week out of Cuba, finally had to lock the doors of its ticket office. Pan American was booked solid into August. As each plane landed in Miami, it was greeted by crowds of anxious exiles, beseeching the new arrivals for word of a brother, a husband, a parent remaining in Cuba...
...advertising-idea man who, nine years out of the University of Michigan, accompanied Hibbs to the top as Post managing editor. Though it is bigger than ever at 6,377,367 circulation, the magazine that Robert Fuoss will command is in serious financial trouble; and so is its parent, Curtis Publishing Co., which 35 years ago was the sturdy colossus of the magazine world...
...sixth grade to become a piano-key fitter, bought a gas station on the installment plan, invested the profits in a Detroit pool hall, and then began buying up faltering businesses,* finally organizing a multimillion-dollar net of farm machine, lawn mower, and auto parts factories under the parent Mast-Foos Co., of which he was president until his death; of complications following surgery for lung cancer; in Detroit. On the theory that "happy employees do a better job," during his last 40 years in business Winslow deluged his delighted workers with $14 million worth of Shetland ponies, dental plates...