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...costliest animals to raise. Pigs are better: born with their eyes open, they are not a feeding problem, and when only six weeks old they are the right size for experimental surgery which may later be adapted to man. Small animals such as rats, mice and guinea pigs will breed in the germfree tanks, so that once the line has been established, generation after generation is born germfree...
...Sahara, chasing down one more story from the Far East. But the hunt was over. Stricken with pneumonia in Tokyo, he was rushed by plane to a hospital in Zurich, his summer home. There, Karl von Wiegand died last week at 86, the last of his breed, a legend somewhat larger than life...
...seen hanging around race tracks. For eight years, while he was President, Dwight D. Eisenhower hewed to convention. But last week, Horse Fancier Eisenhower (he has quarter horses at his Gettysburg, Pa., farm) stood in the rain at New York's Belmont Park with 51,585 other breed improvers to watch the 93rd running of the Belmont Stakes. For Ike, as for everyone else, the star attraction was Carry Back-a little, long-tailed colt who had won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. and needed only the Belmont to become the first horse in 13 years to capture...
...about the gold situation and later recalled him to service, said of another man who had been vociferously bemoaning exile, "Tell that man to go see Dean Acheson and learn how to retire like a gentleman." Others have suggested that Dean Acheson is one of the last of his breed in the government...
...from hormone-treated highbred ewes, fertilizing them with sperm from highbred rams and planting them in the wombs of lowbred ewes. This is a handy way to multiply valuable animal strains far faster than nature can do the same job, but when Dr. Adams wanted to improve the breed of South African sheep by shipping the fertilized ova to Natal, he ran into difficulty. They cannot be shipped frozen, and there was no mechanical device that would keep them alive in a natural state...