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MONGOLISM. Now that the number of chromosomes in human cells is established at 46, correcting a long-held error, variations from the normal are showing up in more and more inborn defects. Dr. Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith of Johns Hopkins reported that in Mongolism, where an extra chromosome has been found, the anomaly appears to be the result of a failure in subdivision, traceable to the maternal egg. In a wide range of sex abnormalities related to hermaphroditism. the number of chromosomes may range from 45 to 48. Among the anomalies, "super females" with three X (female) chromosomes...
With Election Year 1960 pressing hard, Republicans hope to present to the voters an image of the G.O.P. as the party of peace and prosperity. But hope is one thing, success is quite another, and party images are often based on long-held feelings and fears that remain almost unchanged in the face of current facts. Thus, by 1952, after three wars under Democratic administrations, the G.O.P. had established itself in the popular mind as the party most likely to keep world peace. The seven peaceful years of the Eisenhower Administration have done little to change that image for better...
...listened carefully but without comment to Herter's presentation of the plan, which includes at least half a dozen modifications of long-held Western views on Berlin, German unification, and European security...
...long-held U.S. attitude was that a summit conference was useless if it was nothing but a forum for propaganda; before any summit could live up to expectations, foreign ministers should explore the possibilities of genuinely solving cold-war issues. Harold Macmillan, fresh from Moscow's storm and sunshine, argued that Nikita Khrushchev was really the only Communist worth talking to; Macmillan was willing to go through the motions of a foreign ministers' conference, but he wanted to get right down to setting a summit date. At Camp David, President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan agreed...
...have a veto over inspection, but we think some arrangement can be made so there is no swarming in of foreigners." Even in its unilateral decision to halt atom tests for a year beginning last October, the U.S. has leaned far-perilously far, think military experts-from its earlier, long-held position...