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...fast correction from the Waldorf-Astoria. Said he: MacArthur had made it clear, even when urging an expanded attack on the Chinese, that "we should first give the enemy the. opportunity to sit down at a conference table in an honest effort to avoid further bloodshed . . ." The genera! "has consistently refrained" from even discussing the cease-fire negotiations, said Whitney...
Wheat and rye are only superficially similar; they belong to different genera of the grass family. Non-Soviet geneticists believe (on the basis of thousands of experiments) that to make one turn into the other would be as difficult as making a cat give birth to puppies. But such Westerners are neglecting a new factor in genetics: the miracle-passing powers of Joseph Stalin...
...years Ellerman has been gnawing away at his life's work: an exhaustive source book called The Families and Genera of Living Rodents. Last week his longtime dream was nearing realization as he put the finishing touches on the third and final volume. The completed work is intended to do for rodent zoology what Samuel Johnson's dictionary did for the English language...
Boston, which fancies itself the Athens of America, was crammed to its Beacon Street attics with scientists: 5,000 members of the Triple-A S (American Association for the Advancement of Science) in convention assembled. There were psychologists, mycologists, physicists, ecologists, and other genera. They jammed hotel lobbies, mystified the indigenous fauna with polysyllabic shop talk...
...Peace," the world had heard, "is indivisible." Yet as the nations gathered this week at Paris for the first genera-conference to settle World War II, their agenda were made of chips and driblets and minor fractions of what might or might not be peace...