Word: hatchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hatch Takes Hurdles...
...Crimson's Hank Hatch turned in a really outstanding 5.3 effort to take the hurdles, and Greg Baldwin won the two mile. For Holy Cross, Rich Maiberger took the dash in a good 4.6, and Charlie Buchta was the winner in a slow...
...Astaurov has spent 30 years on his research. He began by working out dependable ways to make silkworm eggs hatch into worms of the desired sex. Female worms are comparatively easy to produce: Astaurov's most dependable system is to wash unfertilized eggs and dunk them for 18 minutes in water heated to 115° F. This heat shock makes the eggs start developing as if they had been fertilized, and since they contain no male contribution, they all produce females like their mothers...
...cocoons of male silkworms yield almost one-third more silk than those of females, so Dr. Astaurov concentrated next on making silkworm eggs hatch into males. His most successful technique is to expose unfertilized eggs to X rays. This rough treatment kills the delicate female genetic material but does no apparent harm to other parts of the eggs. Then Dr. Astaurov fertilizes the eggs with male sperm that has not been irradiated. When the embryos develop, they are free of female influence; they all grow into high-yield male silkworms...
...Passport. Delgado got out of Portugal soon after he polled an uncomfortably large 23% of the vote against Premier Salazar's hand-picked candidate for President in the 1958 election. Impatient for action and convinced that "the only solution is bullets," he flew to Morocco last October to hatch a rebel lion against the durable Dr. Salazar. Delgado-made 18 futile attempts to sneak into Portugal, finally decided he needed a passport, a readily available item in wide-open Casablanca. The Colombian, French, Italian and U.S. passports offered to him by dealers were too expensive, but somehow...