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Dean Griswold traces the origin of the gap between white and Negro in the United States to the English common law of chattels, which governed the possession of slaves in the American colonies. The law of chattels regarded slaves as no different from any other form of property, having neither personality, nor rights against their owners...
Romer, an authority on vertebrate animals, was director of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1946-61. His research has centered on the amphibians and reptiles of the Permian period (220-225 million years ago). His study of pelycosaurs has cast light on the remote origin of mammals. Two of his works, "The Vertebrate Body" and "Vertebrate Paleontology" have become standard texts in many universities...
...prevailing intake of vitamin D does no harm. But in unpredictable cases, any excess over normal requirements causes unnatural calcium deposition in the fetus: its bones, especially the base of the skull, grow unusually dense, and chalky deposits narrow the aorta. Sometimes the aorta is narrowed around the origin of the renal arteries so that the kidneys are starved of blood and the affected baby suffers from extremely high blood pressure...
Burke said yesterday that the agency has had four managers since its origin. All of them found that their work did not produce a profitable operation, he said, since it was "enormously time-consuming to make arrangements between customers and entertainers." The 10 per cent commission, which is a "standard agent's fee," was simply not enough to cover the expenses, he explained...
Vice President Johnson was riding two cars behind the Kennedys with Lady Bird, Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough and Secret Service Man Rufus Youngblood. "I was startled by the sharp report or explosion," Johnson wrote the Commission, "but I had no time to speculate as to its origin because Agent Youngblood turned in a flash, immediately after the first explosion, hitting me on the shoulder, and shouted to all of us in the back seat to get down. Almost in the same moment in which he hit or pushed me, he vaulted over the back seat...