Word: less
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were deep personal troubles. His 25-year marriage to Esther Yanofsky Pike, his second wife, ended in divorce in 1967. Less explicable in terms of his own energetic personality, but even more tragic, were the suicides of two people close to him. One had been Pike's personal secretary and close friend. The other was his 20-year-old eldest son, James Jr., who shot himself in a New York hotel in 1966. Not long after that tragedy, Pike began involving himself in psychic research and spiritualism. His efforts to reach his dead son were unabashedly and painfully...
...view of many adults, youth has less to protest about this year than last. Some U.S. troops have been withdrawn from Viet Nam, and presumably more will follow. ROTC is being reduced in status at some schools. Students in many places are gaining a stronger voice in university affairs. Yet to many young people, the pace of change is too slow. The war, the draft, racial tension and poverty still linger. Each class of incoming freshmen in recent years has been more militant than the last; this year's is expected to be no different...
...grievances is now almost universally accepted, and so is the proposition that reforms in advance of crises is the best long-term answer to unrest. The ultra-radicals, of course, can almost never be appeased. But they are relatively impotent if they can win no significant following among the less explosive majority. The concessions being made are therefore aimed at the moderates...
...allow the necessary brain-cell metabolism. But if both parents carry a Tay-Sachs gene, there is a one-in-four risk that the baby will receive two abnormal genes-one from each parent-and succumb to the disease. If he receives only one, his body will produce less Hex-A than it should, but he will be able to lead a normal life. Like his parents, of course, he will be a carrier...
...identification of Hex-A will enable doctors to detect both the carriers and victims of Tay-Sachs disease. If blood tests reveal that both a man and his wife have less than normal amounts of Hex-A and are thus carriers of Tay-Sachs genes, they can be warned of their 25% risk of producing a Tay-Sachs child and perhaps be discouraged from having children of their own. By inserting a needle through a woman's abdomen when she is 16 weeks pregnant and extracting fluid from the amniotic sac, doctors can determine if the unborn child will...