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Every human being is constantly subjected to bombardment by gamma rays (X rays) from natural sources such as cosmic rays. These do no visible damage, for the body is accustomed to the low normal "level of radiation." But when a gamma ray hits the nucleus of a spermatozoon or ovum (the reproductive cells which unite to form a new individual), it may damage one of the thousands of "genes" which carry hereditary characteristics from one generation to the next. This may produce a "mutation." The child may differ slightly or radically from its parents, or the difference may lie concealed...
Born a generation after Eliot and Ransom, and the youngest member of the "Fugitive" group whose nucleus was Vanderbilt University, Warren has been profoundly influenced by the two older men, and through them, by the English metaphysicals. But there is another strain in Warren's experience as an artist, a strain which stems from his acute consciousness of his birth place, the South. In speaking of Warren's awareness of the land in which he grew up, Ransom has remarked that the South is a land where "The inhabitants are sensitively aware of the country in which they live, acknowledging...
...Hashomer, "The Watchman," was formed. At first they were merely armed guards for the new agricultural settlements, but with the end of the war, the idea of an all-inclusive defense organization took root. With returned veterans of the Jewish Legion of Allenby's Middle Eastern British Army, a nucleus of Haganah was formed...
Niels Bohr, too, was unsure. Bohr's model of the atom (nucleus and orbit electrons) won him a Nobel Prize in 1922. He escaped from Nazi-ruled Copenhagen in 1943, and brought his precious knowledge to U.S. atom-bomb builders, with whom he worked in thin incognito as "Mr. Nicholas Baker...
Included among the men who are trying to prove him wrong in workouts beginning Monday is a strong nucleus from last year's starting shell. Up the boat, they include Will Cocheran, Lou Bohn, Mike Sculley, Paul Kuaplund, Lane Barton, Captain Bim Chanler, and Sylvestor Gardner. Not the least of last year's returnees is Sam King...