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...making the appointment, Watson noted, "We are most fortunate to have such an outstanding person and teacher as Corey to place in command of the women's program." Wynn was extremely popular with the racquetwomen last spring and his easy-going style shouldn't breed the kind of problems that the team experienced with McCarthy last season...
...Rhode Island Red is (a) a cross-breed between a Suffolk and Dorset, (b) a member of the Communist Party, (c) a variety of muskmelon, (d) a plant disease, (e) a breed of chickens...
...experiments in "genetic engineering" (TIME, July 19), Khorana's work apparently does not pose dangers. For one thing, the gene is assembled with control signals, which enables scientists to prevent runaway activity. Also, there is no attempt to produce new gene combinations from different organisms that could accidentally breed mutants against which humans or other life have no natural defenses. Indeed, some scientists see in gene synthesis enormous potential for good. It could, for example, eventually be used to replace defective genes in ailing humans-in hemophiliacs, say. It may also bring new understanding-and possibly control-of cancer...
Denenberg is one of at least 50 TV consumer reporters in the U.S. They are a new and embattled breed. John Stossel of New York City's WCBS-TV faces $25 million worth of lawsuits, and Orien Reed, Denenberg's counterpart at KYW-TV in Philadelphia, says she has lost count of the actions filed against her. But Herb Denenberg? He has provoked not a single lawsuit. Not a single advertiser has threatened to cancel...
John Wayne, moving slow and seeming winded, appears here as one John Bernard Books, last of a breed. Books is a fast-draw artist, a gunslinger or, as the movie's title phrases it, a shootist. He has dispatched some 30 men over the course of a long career that is coming to a painful close just as The Shootist begins. J.B. Books comes riding into Carson City, gets examined by his friend Dr. Hostetler (James Stewart), and hears what he feared: he has cancer, and a few days to live...