Word: muller
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Major antagonists were the French delegation, headed by Agricultural Minister Edgard Pisani. and the West German group, headed by West German Agricultural Minister Werner Schwarz. Chairman of the conference last week was West Germany's Alfred Muller-Armack, who was kept so busy trying to keep peace among the two warring delegations that he had to retire at one stage because of his heart condition...
...Sparked by Julio Muller's seven goals, the Milwaukee Polo Club (TIME, July 16) overwhelmed Detroit's Beaver Ridge Farm, 13-9, at Hinsdale, Ill., to win the U.S. open polo championship...
...Said Muller: "A lower-than-average native intelligence becomes ever less of a hindrance in surviving and having children, and so does a lower-than-average endowment of genes conducive to mutual aid and socially useful behavior . . . The principle of the equal sacredness of every life applied to man is ultimately incompatible not only with his progress but even with his survival...
...Muller fears that radiation-typically in atomic work or in high-altitude or space flight-could become an important source of defective human genes. He offered a two-part prescription. "A highly preferred position in regard to radiation protection" should be given the younger two-thirds of the population. And a seminal Fort Knox should be established for deep-frozen storage of the germ cells of men about to be exposed to more than average radiation...
With this as a starter, Dr. Muller thought society could go on to completely planned fatherhood, especially for couples "who are afflicted with sterility or a dubious genetic endowment." He brushed aside administrative difficulties by arguing that "dictation, whether by politicians, physicians or geneticists, would tend to be self-defeating." Dr. Muller was confident that, freezing would not damage sperm. But in one sketchily reported trial of frozen sperm, among the first three babies was a girl so deformed that the mother refused to take her home, and she proved to be mentally defective also...