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...dolphins? Lilly explains that the brain of the seagoing mammal, which is 20% to 40% larger than man's, seems to be at least as complex in structure. This, as well as the dolphin's clever mannerisms, suggests to him that its intelligence may be equal to or even surpass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Speak to Me! | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

...Oscar last year. And in the past four years he has built his own company's gross from $750,000 to $12 million. About the only mishap Tors has suffered occurred after he had filmed Namu, the Killer Whale. He had made friends with the five-ton mammal by spending all-night vigils floating on a log in Namu's pen while squeaking to him in "whale talk" and scratching his back. Shortly after the film was completed, Namu became entangled in a fouling net, and, unable to surface and breath through his spout, he drowned. Tors mournfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: King of the Beasties | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

...becoming a fossilized beast while SDS is a thriving young mammal," Israel concluded

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: M2M Meets; Parent Group May Dissolve | 2/9/1966 | See Source »

...Voted, in the House and Senate Interior Committees, to spend $2,143,150 for establishing a national monument in Nebraska's agate fossil beds, named for the rich concentrations of prehistoric mammal traces that abound in the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Work Done | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

...moment a female mammal is conceived - whether mouse, cat or woman - she has two X chromosomes, one each from father's sperm and mother's ovum. The presence of the pair of Xs, which are reproduced in all of her body's cells, is what makes her female. But each X chromosome packs many other chemically coded instructions for the body; if both a woman's Xs remained active throughout life, she would be flooded with a double quota of some blood-clotting factors, enzymes and other vital proteins. Since she is not, something must happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cancer: The Significance of a Dark Spot | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

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