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Protogyny (the development of a male from a functional female) is not uncommon among other kinds of tropical fish. But the rigid hierarchy of the wrasse harems represents a much more stringent control over the production of males than is found in the comparatively random sex reversals of "schooling" fish. Robertson believes that the inbreeding produced by this aquatic pecking order is genetically advantageous to the species. Because "the social organization is a framework within which the selective process works," he concludes, the genes passed on by each male wrasse are those best adapted to the environment of the harem...
Fighting hard, and with Nixon stumping for him, Riegle won the seat. But taking to heart the bromides of "conscientious representation" and "moral leadership", Riegle lobbied for change in a party too rigid and regressive to accomodate him. His disaffection dated from the 1968 Republican Convention's nomination of Spiro Agnew. The Michigan delegation tried to get John Lindsay, then George Romney, to make a floor fight. The rest is history; Romney received virtually no support and Lindsay wound up, to his everlasting regret, seconding Agnew's nomination...
Thus defined, a rigid quota is a distorted result of the civil rights drive of the 1960s. Then the main motive was to equalize opportunities for blacks, and the movement used as one indicator of progress the proportion of blacks in the previously all-white schools of the South. The movement also led to President Lyndon Johnson's 1965 Executive Order 11246, requiring that no employer holding Government contracts may practice racial or ethnic discrimination in his hiring practices. Two years later, that order was amended to rule out sex discrimination as well...
...when they are planning bolder-and possibly unprofitable -programming. This season will include specials like ABC'S series about Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and David Rabe's Sticks and Bones, one of several dramas CBS and Joseph Papp are planning. If the networks were forced into a rigid formula limiting reruns, they would undoubtedly opt for the cheapest solution, dropping the specials and extending the standard run of series from the present 22-to-24 weeks to the 39 weeks of a decade...
...elite is receding into the background. The entering freshman comes to Harvard eager to continue expanding his intellect, widen his interests and gain more control over his own life. But he is quickly stymied, for the majority of students here are being trained to assume boring administrative jobs in rigid, bureaucratic organizations. Gone are the days when every Harvard graduate could look forward to running his own corporation or political campaign. But the myths lag behind reality: many students here still expect to graduate to "some undefined, exotic, independent career." The pamphlet suggests that this gap between expectations and reality...