Word: maling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Supermale? Nature intended every man and woman to have 46 chromo somes per cell: 22 pairs of autosomes, which determine countless characteristics other than sex, and two gonosomes or sex chromosomes. In the female, these are a pair of Xs; in the male, an X and a Y (see diagram). When a sperm fertilizes an ovum, each supplies half the 46 chromosomes for the combination of cells that will grow into a baby. If the sperm contains an X chromosome, the baby gets that X plus one from the mother, and will be an XX girl. If the sperm contains...
...supposed to make duplicates of themselves, nature slips up. Instead of splitting them into two neat rows of 23 each, it leaves an extra X or Y in one row. If the supernumerary is an X, the baby has an XXY pattern and will grow into a sterile, asthenic "male," usually with some breast enlargement and mental retardation-a condition that physicians call Klinefelter's syndrome...
This has been recognized since 1959. Despite the factor of low intelligence, it has not been linked with criminality. If the extra chromosome is a Y, the baby gets an XYY pattern and is unquestionably male. Or, as evidence gathered by an all-woman team of researchers in Scotland now suggests, he may be a supermale, overaggressive and potentially criminal. Dr. Patricia A. Jacobs and her colleagues working at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh knew that a number of mentally defective men with a double dose of both sex chromosomes, or XXYY, had been found in Swedish and English institutions...
...threat was made at 2:50 a.m. last Friday by a male, who asked to talk to the White House Secret Service and then told them he had planted a bomb in the East Room...
...cast is a shade too adequate on the whole to be worth singling out more than perfunctorily. Bob Bush acts and sings, mostly sings, the part of Sid with more ease than one has right to demand in a community not known for its male leads, particularly of the musical variety. Josh Rubins gets the requisite number of laughs as Hines. And Bea Paiper, Pren Claflin, Chris Arnold and Shannon Scarry are supporting players who actually lend support. Miss Scarry, bigger than life, lends some-what more support than the rest...