Word: inheritability
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...that policy may be altered, but it can rarely be fully reversed. When Kennedy first came to the White House, he resented his inheritance, constantly referred to problems "not of our own making." But now those old problems tend to become "our problems," and the fact that the world is in trouble seems to Kennedy less Dwight Eisenhower's fault than he once suspected. At a recent meeting of the National Security Council, Kennedy opened a folder filled with briefs of U.S. problems. "Now, let's see," he said. "Did we inherit these, or are these...
...three weeks a power struggle had raged over who should inherit the fiefdom of slain Dictator Rafael Trujillo. With so much passion involved, it was surprisingly bloodless. But so long as it was unresolved, the prospects of trouble hung over the Dominican Republic. Backed by a stubborn general strike in the streets, the middle-of-the-road National Civic Union (U.C.N.) demanded the disappearance of the last vestiges of Trujilloism. The two most conspicuous Trujillo vestiges-Armed Forces Boss Pedro Ramón Rodriguez Echaverria and Trujillo's pet President Joaquin Balaguer-as stubbornly resisted vanishing...
Wise & Long-Range. In his new job, Hamilton will inherit an agency with a lineage going back 20 years to the old Lend-Lease Administration. In its newest form, AID will replace the International Cooperation Administration and the Development Loan Fund, with responsibility for most foreign-aid functions. Hamilton will have close to $4 billion to distribute among needy nations-and the special assignments of persuading them to spend their dollars wisely, on long-range programs of economic development...
...Reporting on hairy ear rims around the globe at the Rome genetics meeting last week, Dr. R. Ruggles Gates of London showed that the werewolfish trait is sexlinked. Only men have hairy ear rims, and nearly all of their sons inherit growths. On the other hand, their daughters have hairless ears, and so do those daughters' sons. The chromosome responsible: Y, the male sex determinant...
Hovering over the skaz is old Russia's half-world of demons, firebirds, avenging angels and devils. When the wife and her lover strangle her little nephew (so that she may inherit her late husband's business), the walls of the house are suddenly shaken fiercely; windows rattle and icons tremble. It turns out to be an outraged mob battering at the doors, but at the moment it is possible to believe with the frightened lover that it is an angel thundering over the house...