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...cules at Strasbourg, Professor Benoit and Father Leroy secured a supply of DNA extracted from the genitals of Khaki-Campbell ducks, which are smallish birds with brown bodies and greenish-black beaks. Then they bought from a reliable dealer nine new-hatched female ducklings and three males of the Pekin breed, which is larger and creamy white, with an orange bill...
Wonderful News. When the ducklings were eight days old, they began getting injections of DNA in their peritoneal cavities. That was last June. Nothing detectable happened until March. Then one day Father Leroy was leaning on a chicken-wire fence admiring the researchers' flock of Pekin ducks. He noted something new and called to Professor Benoit: "I think I have wonderful news...
With trembling eagerness the partners examined their ducks. One male and eight females were undergoing a strange metamorphosis. Their bills, which should have been the Pekin breed's solid orange, were turning greenish-black at the bases. Day after day the changes continued. At last Benoit and Leroy decided that they had new-style ducks that do not resemble their Pekin parents or the Khaki-Campbells from whose genitals their DNA had been taken-or even a hybrid between the two. Their feathers are soft and pure white instead of rough and creamy white, as in Pekin ducks. Their...
Lightning laced the sky at Pekin, Ill. (pop. 22,000) one night last week as a thunderstorm rolled over American Distilling Co.'s plant outside town. At 2:30 a.m., a lightning bolt crackled into a rack house full of 100-proof whisky and started a fire that quickly spread to three other buildings. In all, 40,000 barrels-equal to 8,000,000 fifths-of Good Old Guckenheimer, and Bourbon Supreme and other brands were destroyed. Firemen stood helplessly outside a ring of flames so intense that a coal pile 100 yards away began to smolder...
Action at Dawn. While Jimmy Byrnes's contradiction of Harry Truman was still echoing, Illinois' Republican Representative Harold H. Velde reeled into the controversy, firing subpoenas from the hip. At 5 o'clock one morning, after sitting up alone in his Pekin, Ill. home, Velde, with an eye on the headlines, issued subpoenas for Truman, Byrnes and Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark (who, said Brownell, also saw the FBI report at the time Truman saw it). Velde did not get approval of his Un-American Activities Committee for this action. Committee Counsel Robert Kunzig explained that...