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...organism be altered after conception? This age-old problem has now been attacked from a new angle: ducks. The doers are Professor Jacques Benoit, who holds the chair of histophysiology in the Collège de France and has studied the reproduction of ducks for 20 years, and Pierre Leroy, a Jesuit priest-biologist and refugee from Red China...
...weapon in their research is DNA (desoxyribonucleic acid), a complex chemical found in the nuclei of cells and believed to be concerned with heredity. From the Centre de Recherches sur les Macromollécules at Strasbourg, Professor Benoit and Father Leroy secured a supply of DNA extracted from the genitals of Khaki-Campbell ducks, which are smallish birds with brown bodies and greenish-black beaks. Then they bought from a reliable dealer nine new-hatched female ducklings and three males of the Pekin breed, which is larger and creamy white, with an orange bill...
Wonderful News. When the ducklings were eight days old, they began getting injections of DNA in their peritoneal cavities. That was last June. Nothing detectable happened until March. Then one day Father Leroy was leaning on a chicken-wire fence admiring the researchers' flock of Pekin ducks. He noted something new and called to Professor Benoit: "I think I have wonderful news...
...year fight of Melvin and Frances Ellis, a Jewish couple, to keep Hildy McCoy, whom they had adopted as a baby from her unwed Roman Catholic mother (TIME, April 1), was halted by Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins. At Tallahassee, after hearing more than two hours of testimony, Collins announced that he would not allow the Ellises to be extradited to Massachusetts, where they face a charge of kidnaping Hildy. Background of the charge: a few weeks after she signed the adoption papers, Hildy's mother, Marjorie McCoy, said she had not known that the Ellises were Jewish...
...undergraduates will debate the topic "Should Haravrd Continue Participation in the National Students Association" in Emerson D at 8 p.m. tonight. William Y. Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of Political Science will moderate...