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Always ready to tinker with the basic life processes if they can improve the breed, agricultural geneticists have experimentally transplanted embryos of cows, sheep and mice from high-quality mothers to lower-quality "incubator" females of the same species. Their goal: to allow champion breeders to conceive more offspring in less time, pass on the lengthy trials of pregnancy to their lesser sisters...
...that new breed of managers: the nice guys. Like Brooklyn's Walter Alston and Boston's Pinky Higgins, he never felt the need for loudmouthed bluster. Slats was the man who was managing the St. Louis Browns in 1953, when they became the Baltimore Orioles, and he said out loud that he had a lousy ball club. He was fired for his honesty. "Defeatist," mumbled the Orioles' General Manager Arthur Ehlers, choosing a strange word to describe the skinny scrapper who had made himself "Mr. Shortstop" on the red-hot St. Louis Cardinals...
Behind the scenes, hundreds of other companies-in every industry-are changing hands. They are being taken over by a new breed of profit-minded investors, who are dissatisfied with professional managers (often owners of only a small stock interest) and want to direct the firms themselves. To some businessmen the new trend is bad; they call such investors "destructive opportunists," "mortuary millionaires" who kill off companies to pocket their assets. But to a good many other businessmen the take-over trend is all to the good. They argue that it is sparking a resurgence of stockholder interest in management...
...Citizenship" in the June 27 issue ... I felt no sorrow over the Chinese sailor losing his white wife whose marriage was annulled, but I was astonished to see the verdict of Justice Buchanan of the Virginia Supreme Court: "... the state . . . will preserve the racial integrity . . . not have a mongrel breed . . . prevent the obliteration of racial pride" . . . as against such American national slogans as "equality," "land of freedom," etc. I am proud of my race...
...first time and upheld it. Said Justice Archibald C. Buchanan: "We are unable to read in the 14th Amendment . . . any words or intendment which prohibit the state from enacting legislation to preserve the racial integrity of its citizens . . . so that it shall not have a mongrel breed of citizens. We find there is no requirement that the state shall not legislate to prevent the obliteration of racial pride, but must permit the corruption of blood, even though it weaken or destroy the quality of its citizenship. Both sacred and secular history teach that nations have better advanced in human progress...