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...last four months, 74 men, women & children have died in U.S. airline crashes. Etched into the public's mind last week were pictures of crumpled wreckage and gobbeted bodies that were far more vivid than any statistics. In Congress, South Carolina's Representative L. Mendel Rivers cried: "There's something wrong with the whole doggone setup and something ought to be done about...
Sometimes there were quiet evenings when he turned to his favorite pastime -the study of biology, particularly the laws of Mendel, under the microscope. (When his third daughter was born and he still had no male heir, he assuaged his disappointment by collecting fungi in the palace park...
Ultimate goal of the towering, touseledhaired Freshman is naturally a crack at the Harvard shot-put record, (50 feet), set back in 1940 by Mikkola-trained Howard Mendel '40, at the IC4A Championships in Harvard Stadium. And after that, there may be even greener pastures. Meanwhile, Mikkola nods his head, thinking at the same time how badly he's going to miss those much-needed shot-put points next spring. "He'll be a good man when he comes back," Jaako smiles...
...Back to Mendel. One of the men who blazed the new fur trail is the short, chunky president of the two-year-old Silverblu Platinum Mink Breeders Association, Larry Moore. Still in his 30s, Larry Moore has been breeding mink for 18 years. He used it to pay his way through an engineering course at Iowa State College at Ames. Soon he became more inter sted in mink than in engineering, switched to an animal husbandry course. Then he gave up college altogether: tak ing care of his mink left him little time for study. Having located an ideal...
...mink are exceedingly rare. One furrier tried for ten years to collect enough for a single jacket. Domestic breeders, in whose litters they occasionally turn up, had been experimenting with them since 1931. But progress was small because furriers considered them worth less freaks and ranchers were ignorant of Mendel's laws of heredity. Larry Moore, who understood Mendel, persuaded other ranchers that the laws could be used to breed silverblus and dollars. Last week one bundle of Moore's furs brought the auc tion's top prices, $265 a skin, netting him over...