Word: celling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Molecular genetics, fastest-growing branch of all, uses the newest techniques of biochemistry to explore the extraordinary molecular structures that exist in every living cell and control its growth and reproduction. Hopes are high that this science will soon come to a complete understanding of life's basic chemical processes. But for all the activity that was reported at the Hague congress, there has been no important breakthrough. Progress reports were filled with the promise of discoveries yet to come. A sampling...
...Ruth Sager of Columbia reported significant success in experiments with the long-known but little-understood genes that are not included in the chromosomes that carry most of the elements of a cell's heredity. When reproductive cells mate and divide, the nonchromosomal genes are portioned out by rules that seem to differ from the Mendelian laws governing the chromosome genes. Until now it has been assumed that the female descendants of a mating transmit all the nonchromosomal genes, but Dr. Sager thinks that male descendants occasionally transmit a few. Further experiments may link nonchromosomal genes with the inherited...
...four-letter genetic code that carries the information that tells a fertilized cell to develop into a man or a pine tree is now the subject of avid research all over the world. In spite of optimistic announcements, the code has not yet been broken, and no great progress toward breaking it was reported at The Hague...
...which police can hold a suspect for 90 days without charge. (When the 90-day term comes to an end, some prisoners are being dutifully released, allowed to walk 100 yards, then rearrested for another three-month stretch.) A month after his arrest, Goldreich apparently got hold of cell-block keys, possibly with inside help, and freed three fellow prisoners-two anti-apartheid Asians, and a Jewish lawyer, Harold Wolpe, longtime defender of imprisoned leftists...
Sister Virginia fought the Devil. She locked herself in her cell, flogged her naked back until the blood came, sent precious gifts to Our Lady of Loreto, prayed endlessly that "the Lord would free me from that passion." But several nuns who were Sister Virginia's close friends acted as if they were on Satan's payroll: when the time came, it was one of them who tossed the convent key over the wall to Osio...