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...warn -parents who run the risk of producing a Tay-Sachs child only by means of blood tests. But a Chicago ophthalmologist has an easier way. Dr. Edward Cotlier has found that the enzyme hexosaminidase A, which is absent in Tay-Sachs victims, can be measured in human tears. Collier has detected normal levels of the enzyme in the tears of 50 healthy volunteers, low levels in 14 parents who carried the defective genes, and none in four children with the disease. His finding holds out hope for early identification of couples who could have Tay-Sachs children. Instead...
...Bruce Collier, research assistant in the Office of Tests, said Tuesday that a similar survey of 7 courses was conducted last year but that the results were never made public because of its experimental nature...
...Wheeler-Howard Act, written under the auspices of John Collier '23, then Commissioner of Indian Affairs, gave the tribes the right to organize and to adopt a constitution. Most tribes, including the Oglala Sioux, drafted a constitution, but some tribes decided not to ratify...
...ancient Mayan city of Yaxja in Guatemala and saw tombs laid waste by robbers: "I'd like to take the next museum art director I see and dip him in honey and tie him up near an anthill." The big collections, say Curators Bennet Bronson and Donald Collier of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, are supporting an entire underworld. Collectors usually deal only with the last-and most gentlemanly-middlemen. In an atmosphere of genteel negotiation, it is all too easy for acquisitive collectors to concentrate on the beauty of the object and forget about...
...ABRAM T. COLLIER '34. Collier also attended the Law School and the Business School. A lawyer, he is the president of New England Mutual Life Insurance in Boston...