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...Victoria, B.C., Biologist Paul H. D. Parizeau, investigating "grey ash" found on car windshields, blamed Radiolaria. His argument: these single-celled animals live in countless billions in the sea. When they die, their silicic, spherical skeletons sink to the ocean floor, form a radiolarian ooze. An explosion such as the H-bomb would blow them skyward, heating them past 1,710° centigrade, at which temperature silica melts. But they would harden again at the lower temperatures of the atmosphere and, being feather light, would float on the wind across the Pacific -to strike windshields...
...that would be funny if it weren't so nearly tragic. It is the idea that the measure of a man-or a woman-can be taken in terms of his or her sexual efficiency. It is easy to see how this concept might occur to a biologist. These scientists spend their lives studying lower forms of life -animals, insects and plants-and they quickly observed that the entire life cycle of a potato bug or a fruit fly is devoted to insuring the survival of the species. But we are not potato bugs, and you cannot take theories...
...College, the Faculty Committee tries to keep the Scholars as diversified a group as possible. Though the English department, and especially the creative writing field, is always well represented, the present group of Scholars includes as well a historian, an economist, a government major, and even a biologist...
...like to read a few samples. For some reason TIME'S story of the Kinsey Report produced a quantity of poems, several on Artist Artzybasheff's cover portrait of Dr. Kinsey. The theme: the doctor's bow tie sprinkled with the Mirror of Venus symbols, the biologist's sign of female. The writers wanted to know where such ties could be bought. The reply they received...
Other Lasker winners: ¶ Nobelman Hans Adolf Krebs. biochemist (TIME. Nov. 2). ¶Biologist George Wald, 46 of Harvard, for exploring the chemistry of vision. ¶State Health Officer Felix J. Underwood, 71, of Mississippi, for expanding public-health services. ¶Bacteriologist Earle B. Phelps (who died in June) for pioneering in sanitary science...