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...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...
More from the Sun. Martian life, said the panel headed by Princeton Biologist Colin S. Pittendrigh and Stanford's Nobel-prizewinning Geneticist Joshua Lederberg, must be hardy enough to survive long periods of extreme dryness and cold. Martian organisms may concentrate water vapor the way earthly plants collect small traces of carbon dioxide; they may even make their own water by chemical action. There is a possibility that they need no water at all, using some other liquid as a fluid medium...
Nicholas W. Gillham '54, a plant geneticist, will become assistant professor of Biology, and Thomas C. Patterson, a specialist in South American archaeology and ethnology, will be assistant professor of Anthropology...
...Siberia. With Stalin to back him, Lysenko became absolute dictator of Soviet biology, including agricultural research and development. In 1940 he sent his opponent, Professor Nikolai I. Vavilov, Russia's leading geneticist, to die in Siberia. He purged or silenced other critics in universities and laboratories. While Stalin lived, no one dared to disagree with Lysenko. His primitive exercises in plant and animal breeding had few successes, and lack of dogma-free research contributed heavily to the poor performance of Soviet agriculture...