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...symbolic torch of the Olympic games has burned in many places, but never in Latin America. As the International Olympic Committee met in the West German resort of Baden-Baden last week to pick the site for the 1968 summer games, the French city of Lyon poured out the champagne and was full of effervescent expectations. Michigan's Governor George Romney flew over from the U.S. to plead Detroit's impressive case (its seventh attempt) with the help of a 37-minute movie including a special pitch by President Kennedy. Of the two Latin American contenders, Mexico...
Since Rouault's death in 1958, this work has lain in his studio near the Gare de Lyon, a big apartment whose address he kept secret to avoid visitors. He always hoped that his thick, glowing paintings would eventually be shown in some place that, unlike France's many one-man museums, would be widely known and easily accessible. This was also the dream of his daughter ("my little dove") Isabelle, who has devoted her life to her father's work. A few weeks ago Minister of Culture André Malraux told her of the museum plan...
...years ago, Dr. Lyon proposed a revolutionary hypothesis. Every female mammal, whether mouse or woman, has two X (female) chromosomes, one each from father and mother. A male has one X and one Y. Since the X chromosome carries genes that control the production of many enzymes which in turn govern the body's chemistry, a female with two Xs should have twice as much of these enzymes as a male with one. But she doesn't. Dr. Lyon's proffered explanation: one of the female's X chromosomes is muted soon after conception and becomes...
Some Sterile Cats. Building upon Miss Lyon's theory, other researchers have explained a mystery about calico cats. In theory, such a cat has to be a female because its black and orange patches must result from two different X chromosomes. What seemed to be male calico cats have turned out, on study of their cells, to have two X chromosomes as well as a Y. They are an intersex form, and they are sterile...
Applying the Lyon hypothesis to women, geneticists at California's City of Hope have shown mosaicism in women who suffer from a form of Mediterranean anemia. But this is only one of at least 58 inborn defects that appear to result from defects in X chromosomes. Among others: some forms of color blindness and of anemia, hemophilia, muscular dystrophy, deafness...