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Here, the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Secret of Life | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

As cups of water were poured over screens of khus-khus grass to cool homes, and millions of Indians drank curd milk mixed with salt, the superstitious villagers of Uttar Pradesh put slices of onion beneath their turbans and hung garlic on their fans in the belief it would ward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Indian Summer | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

Ivory Tower. Near Nalbari, India, the referee of a soccer game, caught in a spectator riot, escaped on the back of an elephant.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 23, 1958 | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

POLITICAL NOTES Water for the Elephant Farm Economist William G. Murray, 54, on leave from Iowa State College to take his first flyer at statewide office, wasted no time on temper last winter when Republican bosses studiously ignored his early race for Governor. "I haven't carried enough water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Water for the Elephant | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

As Hume told it in last week's Pic: "I was born with a chip on my shoulder as big as an elephant." The "aunt" who raised him turned out to be his mother, who apparently refused to accept him as her son because he had no legal father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Murder for Profit | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

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