Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vice President Nixon. I regretfully report that this letter was a fraud. Willis Scholl, executive vice president of the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., who lives at the address given on the letter, did not write it and most certainly does not agree with the views it expressed. Since the person who signed Mr. Scholl's name to this letter is guilty of an offense against the Federal Code, the whole matter has been turned over to federal authorities...
...Lantana, Murphy had told the plane attendant that he was carrying a sick man; the attendant saw one passenger in dark clothes, and on a cot or boards, "what looked like a person covered completely with a blanket or canvas." When Murphy landed back at Tamiami, he was apparently alone. Estimated round-trip air time for that type of plane from Florida to Monte Cristi Airport on the north coast of the Dominican Republic...
...biology develops there may come a time when a child can develop from an ovum whose nucleus has been removed and replaced by the nucleus of 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...
Another possibility is "chemical adultery." Bacteria can already be subjected to "directed mutation" by means of a chemical, DNA (desoxyribosenucleic acid), extracted from the chromosomes. When this practice is extended to humans, certain hereditary characteristics of one person can be transferred to the reproductive cells of another person. Looking far ahead, Rostand anticipates a time "when each human infant could receive a standard DNA that would confer the most desirable physical and intellectual characteristics. Such children will not be the offspring of a particular couple, but of the entire species...
...Donner Foundation expects that income from the grants will provide a $20,000 salary to the person selected to fill the position at each of the universities. However, at the current interest figure on similar Harvard endowments, the income here may come to nearly $25,000. University professorships are also based on a $500,000 endowment...