Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laurence K. Marshall of Cambridge will lead the group for the sixth time. With him will be his son, John Marshall '55, Robert Gesteland, of the University of Michigan and M.I.T., and Robert G. Gardner...
Mindful of the Big Ten's code of football purity and eager to show that service with Coach Duffy Daugherty's undefeated assassins does not curtail a young scholar's other activities, Michigan State's athletic department posed hefty (6 ft., 200 Ib.) sophomore Guard Russ Kelly, 25, with his four major courses: Nick, 7, Kurt, 6, Marilyn, 4, and Terry...
Geometry They Don't Dig. A onetime premedical student at Michigan State University. Waldron found himself confronted by every kind of question, from "What is an idea?" to "What are the three body types?" He had to conjugate Latin verbs, locate the source of the Mississippi, identify the President of the U.N. General Assembly, solve all sorts of math problems for troubled bobby-soxers. "Geometry," he found, "they just don't dig." So many questions poured in that Waldron soon realized the station's "reference library-a 1943 Who's Who, a 1950 Information Please Almanac...
...these days, science may come to the rescue. Geneticist Manuel Gordon of Michigan State University has succeeded in partially controlling the sex of unborn rabbits. His system depends on the fact that when a mammalian ovum is fertilized, the sex of the individual into which it will develop is determined by the sperm that does the fertilizing. Half the sperm cells have X chromosomes, which produce females. The other half have Y chromosomes, which produce males. So a way to start to control sex might be to separate the sperm cells into X and Y fractions before insemination...
AUBREY'S BRIEF LIVES (341 pp.)-Edited by Oliver Lawson Dick-University of Michigan...