Word: matings
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Tricky Rendezvous. Other engineering ifs proliferate. The moon project as it is now planned includes a rendezvous in lunar orbit, during which a small spacecraft that has landed on the moon will soar up and mate with a main spacecraft orbiting overhead. The problems involved are all but incredible. No space vehicles have yet accomplished rendezvous, even in earth orbit with bases near by and massive, quick-witted computers on hand to do their navigation. The Russians may have at least attempted the trick, but the U.S. has not, and it will not even make its first try until...
...cooperate in space, they will have a hard time deciding what astronauts and cosmonauts to send along as symbols. Perhaps the decision will be to send a mixed crew; perhaps the decision will yet be to send no crew at all. Another fruitful way to cooperate would be to mate burly Russian boosters to sophisticated U.S. spacecraft. Even exchanges of already gathered data would be valuable. The Russians know most about the effect of continued weightlessness on the human organism, while the U.S. knows most about conditions in space...
...line began to form at 9:30 Friday evening, when Choate graduate Arklay F. King '67 and his Hotchkiss-bred room-mate George D. Kappus '67 arrived with blankets, pillows, and an umbrella to take the first two places on line. At 10:15 two more young men arrived to take their places on the porch of Burr Hall. King reported that the first ten people on line were all from prep schools, and that seven of them came from St. Marks...
...Ruth Sager of Columbia reported significant success in experiments with the long-known but little-understood genes that are not included in the chromosomes that carry most of the elements of a cell's heredity. When reproductive cells mate and divide, the nonchromosomal genes are portioned out by rules that seem to differ from the Mendelian laws governing the chromosome genes. Until now it has been assumed that the female descendants of a mating transmit all the nonchromosomal genes, but Dr. Sager thinks that male descendants occasionally transmit a few. Further experiments may link nonchromosomal genes with the inherited...
...that the human species is headed for degradation because natural selection no longer operates in human society, or that human evolution stopped when civilization appeared. "Both are untrue," he said. "Natural selection is at work when a defective child dies or when a dwarfed man fails to find a mate. A high mortality rate is not necessary for natural selection to operate. The great danger to man is not the suppression of natural selection but what is called the population explosion. Man must regulate his behavior for the benefit of future generations. If he will not take measures to avoid...