Word: parentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another individual. The genetic mother in this case would be the person who supplied the substitute nucleus. This changeling nucleus can come from a person of either sex. Thus if the father supplied the nucleus and also fertilized the ovum, he would be the child's only genetic parent...
Author Shelley Smith has a peculiar difficulty in her first serious book. She writes so easily that she may not be taken seriously. But her three stories will trouble any adult who can remember the major agonies of childhood, any parent who has ever been guilty of inflicting or ignoring them...
...criticize education for not having enough discipline; try disciplining a child when the parent constantly sides with the child and fights the school...
...everybody thought he had kidnaped them. Scripter John Vlahos could not resist the predictable switcheroo for a misty-moist ending (the Rangers discovered the publicity on the Beaver Patrol had been sensational, and Uncle Chuck finally felt wanted), sometimes seemed to be writing an artful recruiting appeal for parent participation in youth groups. But his simple story was redeemed by an authentic feel for the peculiarly Jewish blend of wry humor and forthright sense of Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, and the warm, shamblingly expert performance of Slezak, who can (and frequently has) played this kind of role so expertly...
Trains & Trainers. The Fairchild parent company was known through the 19205 and 19305 as a camera-and-plane maker. Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp. split off from the parent in 1936, started to diversify soon after World War II, when Dick Boutelle took over the presidency. A onetime Army Air Corps major who went to Fairchild in 1941, Boutelle decided that plane contracts alone were not enough to see the company through the postwar readjustment. Operating out of a trophy-filled office resembling the living room of a big-game hunter, which he is, Dick Boutelle's first move...