Word: geneticist
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Billion to One. In roughly 1000 A.D., speculates Geneticist McKusick, a Rhineland Jew was hit in the gonads by either a cosmic ray or a ray from radioactive rock such as granite. By a billion-to-one chance, the ray damaged one of the genes that govern biochemical development in the embryo's nervous system, leaving a defect that impairs many automatic functions and sensory perception. While the victim's fertility was unimpaired, reasons McKusick, half of his many descendants carried the defective gene with them during a 13th century Jewish migration to Eastern Europe, the area that...
...brilliant plant geneticist whose hybridizations left his fellow Americans with infinitely improved strains of corn, juicier, hardier strawberries, and hens that would lay more eggs on less feed. Only last March he was in the Dominican Republic trying to introduce strawberries as a badly needed cash crop...
Quiet as Hell. Did the arrest presage a new cultural crackdown? So far, the Brezhnev-Kosygin regime has taken a moderate approach to intellectuals, avoiding the shrill, savage attacks of the Khrushchev era. Khrushchev's cultural hatchet man, Leonid Ilyichev, has been removed; Stalin's pet geneticist, Trofim Lysenko, has been disavowed by Russian science; imaginative and critical writing appears frequently in Soviet publications so long as it remains within limits. More importantly, B. & K. seem to recognize the sheer public-relations value inherent in "liberalization." Says one Washington Kremlin-watcher: "These men would like to handle this...
...North Carolina law caused cancellation of an appearance by the late British Geneticist J.B.S. Haldane, who refused to declare in writing that he was not a Communist. Proposed invitations to Playwright Arthur Miller and Soviet Civil Engineer Dr. V. V. Sokolovsky were dropped. Since the ban, the most controversial speakers have been Actress Jayne Mansfield and Play boy Publisher Hugh Hefner...
Died. Anton R. Zhebrak, 64, Soviet geneticist best known for his work on wheat hybridization, who was deposed in 1947 by Stalin's pet scientist Trofim Lysenko for insisting that hereditary characteristics cannot be modified by environment, but was since exonerated and accorded a glowing Pravda obituary ("A fine Communist, whose words never differed from his deeds"); in Moscow...