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...showdown for the Ivy League championship take's place this weekend at Penn and Princeton. Cornell (11-1) plays Penn (8-3) at the Palestra tonight, and will probably defeat the Quakers to cling to a precarious lead in the Ivy race...
...Management. All this adds up to a major failure of British management. Cecil King, chairman of International Publishing Corp., has said: "The standard of management in business in this country is abysmally low. Too many old men cling on long past their ability to contribute anything. Too many jobs are given to school friends or relations." The average age of 100 top British executives was recently given as 61-older than either bishops or members of the Cabinet. Many companies are still family-owned and fusty, and the existence of an "Old Boy" network of gentlemen amateurs discourages the formation...
...often two caulobacters put the ends of their stalks together and cling for a long time while spherical grains in their stalk tips gradually fuse together...
Nemec and Bystricky believe that when two caulobacters cling together in this manner they are, in effect, mating -exchanging genetic material through their stalks. If the conjugating caulobacters belong to strains with different hereditary endowment, both may be improved by the swap. This is the great advantage of sexuality for any form of life; it permits faster evolution...
Bacteria normally multiply by sexless fission-they simply split in two. Still, scientists believe that some kinds of bacteria occasionally manage a kind of sexual mating. It is almost impossible to catch them in the act, though, because they have no special sex organs, and often when they cling together it is not for love. But at least one kind of microscopic bug has a sex life with a difference. Professors Pavel Nemec and Vojtech Bystricky of the Slovak Polytechnical University in Bratislava report that the Caulobacter, a harmless bacterium found in soil, possesses a multi-purpose organ that...