Word: gregor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Front. For a time at least, Mac-Gregor's job in fact will be something like superintendent of nuts and bolts. The committee he has inherited already numbers 230 workers, broken down into a polling operation, advertising, nationality committees, direct mail and a section concerned with political organization. MacGregor also will be less of a back-room operator than Mitchell. He intends to be the chief political spokesman for the President. "I am going to be somewhat more out front than John was," he says. "I plan to have frequent press conferences and speak out. The President agrees that...
Died. Pierre Luboshutz, 76, concert pianist; in Rockport, Me. Following his graduation' from the Moscow Conservatory in 1912, Luboshutz served as accompanist for such personalities as Gregor Piatigorsky and Isadora Duncan. He also did scores for Stanislavsky productions including Peer Gynt. Luboshutz first came to the U.S. in 1928 and began performing piano duet concerts in 1937 with his wife, Genia Nemenoff. For 30 years they toured the world, winning critical praise and popular success with their subtle interpretations of Mendelssohn, Mozart and Brahms...
Molecular biology, in part, is rooted in the science of genetics. Ever since Cro-Magnon man, parents have probably wondered why their children resemble them. But not until an obscure Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel began planting peas in his monastery's garden in the mid-19th century were the universal laws of heredity worked out. By tallying up the variations in the offspring peas, Mendel determined that traits are passed from generation to generation with mathematical precision in small, separate packets, which subsequently became known as genes (from the Greek word for race...