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...from the lab and multiplying, their scenario goes, it could find its way into human intestines and cause baffling diseases. Beyond any immediate danger, others say, there are vast unknowns and moral implications. Do not intervene in evolution, they warn in effect, because "it's not nice to fool Mother Nature." Caltech's biology chairman, Robert Sinsheimer, concludes: "Biologists have become, without wanting it, the custodians of great and terrible power. It is idle to pretend otherwise...
...Wyatt, vice president for administration, said yesterday he ordered the audit after Frank J. Weissbecker, director of Food Services, expressed concern that many students without board contracts might be using lost or stolen cards to fool the dining hall checkers...
Dwight D. Eisenhower once observed that appointing Earl Warren Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court was "the biggest damn fool thing I ever did." In The Memoirs of Earl Warren, to be published in June by Doubleday, the late Chief Justice spells out some details of his strained relationship with Ike. The former President, he writes, thought the Warren court was too soft on Communists. "What would you do with Communists in America?" the Chief Justice asked Eisenhower. His reply: "I would kill the s.o.b.'s." Nor did Eisenhower agree with the court's decision on school...
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I've been deceived. But I don't think he's an egotistical fool. McCarthy is a modern-day Don Quixote...
...break between the two countries was complete. While Chiang Ch'ing did not play a direct role in foreign affairs, she did have some contact with Soviet leaders. Leonid Brezhnev she would later describe as "the biggest clown in the world"; Nikita Khrushchev was "a big fool." She was particularly bitter about him because he had talked to foreign statesmen about the "yellow peril...