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Lysenko moved with Rasputin-like skill. Inviting critics to come forth at an "open" scientific meeting in 1948. he trapped them into confessing their adherence to the old "Mendel-Morgan" genetic heresies and, with Stalin's approval, replaced them with his cronies. As Director of the Genetics Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Lysenko banned all experiments in traditional genetics; even the fruit flies used in this work were destroyed by boiling...
...opposition came from Hays' old friends and allies, who argued, rather lamely, that the consolidated accounts would become a "slush fund" so offensive to the voters that the majority Democrats would all be thrown out of office. Among those who pointed with alarm was South Carolina's Mendel Davis, who once kept Liz Ray on his payroll as a favor to Hays. Other Democrats, mainly Southerners with safe seats, fought against tightening a system that handed out so many favors so liberally...
...Democrats were alarmed that the sex scandal might hurt their party's congressional candidates in November. Liz had worked for three Congressmen since 1972, all Democrats: Hays, South Carolina's Mendel Davis and Illinois' Kenneth Gray (who retired in 1974). Moreover, Hays is one of the most powerful of Democrats, a man who has signed all the checks flowing to his party's candidates from his Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Said one Republican congressional leader: "I'm not going to help them solve this...
...Hays, she left for Hollywood in the spring of 1975. "I'd been giving Academy Award performances once a week," she told the Washington Post. When she returned from the West Coast last July after failing to land even a cocktail waitress job, Hays asked South Carolina Democrat Mendel J. Davis to put her on his staff. As a member of Hays' House Administration Committee, Davis, 33, was eager to oblige the chairman. After a month or so Liz asked to rejoin Hays. He placed her on the committee payroll as a clerk. When she sought a raise...
...teachers marching in front of the red-doored school. Even at P.S. 6, which is regarded as one of the three or four best schools in the New York City system, classes were overcrowded; last year they grew to 36 students and this year to 40. Said Sally Mendel, a mother on the picket line: "I'm fearful that conditions in the city will continue to force out the middle-class people who can't afford private schools...