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...geneticists now believe, lies the high command of growth and reproduction. Double-helix DNA molecules, thousands of turns long and arranged by thousands in each chromosome, can carry a vast amount of coded information. They may very likely carry enough to determine whether a fertilized egg grows into a clam or an elephant. When chromosomes replicate during cell division, the DNA molecules that they contain presumably replicate...
...Clam & Dromedary. Where screening fails, footnotes are added: the reader learns that a clam is "a shellfish similar to an oyster," and a prophet is "one who foresees events." Globe's editors seem to have taken great care to snip out words that might enlarge children's minds-even the slow-learning children at whom such books are aimed. In the cut-down version of one novel, the not-too-difficult word dromedary is thrown out for the easier camel-sparing young readers the trouble of adding a new name to the beasts in their mental menageries...
...Alekseevich Menshikov, Russia's new ambassador to the U.S. A foreign-trade specialist who persuasively sold the Soviet trade-plus-aid approach as ambassador to India, Envoy Menshikov, 55, is conspicuously suited to the Kremlin's peaceful-coexistence line. In black-and-white contrast to his dour, clam-mouthed predecessor, Georgy Zarubin, he flashes a wide and easy smile, spouts friendly sentiments in fluent English. Upon arrival in the U.S. a fortnight ago, he promptly declared himself an ambassador of "peace, friendship and cooperation." Last week he paid courtesy visits to Vice President Nixon and half a dozen...
...develops "the astounding power of some 20,000 grams per gram of its own weight," or ten times the power of human muscles working at top speed. Says Hoyle: "The only known muscles in the whole animal world that equal this power are the shell-closing muscles of the clam-but the grasshopper's muscles work far more rapidly...
...months ago. Then he shocked the nation's nannies and provoked a reproving tut from one British newspaper by shipping eight-year-old Prince Charles as crew for a three-hour race through choppy seas in his 2g-ft. yawl, Bluebottle. Result: happy and salt-soaked as a clam, Charles had a fine time, pleased his papa by taking the tiller himself after they plowed past the finish line in fourth place...