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...Geneticists at the University of Utah pooh-poohed the popular fear that many types of cancer can be passed on by heredity. On the basis of a six-year study of several hundred Utah families, the geneticists concluded that only three extremely rare kinds can be transmitted as inherited characteristics. They are multiple polyposis (which may develop into intestinal cancer), retinoblastoma (cancer of the eye), xeroderma pigmentosum (which may become skin cancer...
...Democratic Party split over the civil-rights issue, Reuther's threat met with dead silence from the party elders. Determined to work out a compromise civil-rights plank that will be acceptable in the North and not too offensive to the South, most Democratic bosses, Northern and Southern, pooh-pooh the notion that the issue is one that cannot be compromised. Meantime, the package they hope to sell is one prepared by Chicago's Negro Congressman William Dawson, i.e., that civil-rights problems belong to President Eisenhower, since it is up to him to enforce...
...Algeria. Pledged to enact the welfare state, he must refrain from Socialist economics because the Algerian campaign eats up all his revenues. With only the field of foreign affairs left in which to strike popular attitudes, Mollet and Pineau have accordingly thrown themselves with ideological ardor into pooh-poohing the Soviet military menace, urging disarmament, and gigging...
...Kelly-Rainier prenuptial rites (see PRESS). Italy's limpid-eyed Cinemorsel Marisa Pavan, 23, an Oscar nominee for her supporting role in The Rose Tattoo, was going to marry France's dashing Cinemale Jean Pierre Aumont this summer; she thought he was "about 42" (he is 46), pooh-poohed his Riviera trysts with Grace Kelly as "just a publicity stunt." One of Grace's bridesmaids, TV and Movie Actress Rita Gam, 27, cooed throatily at her new fiancé. Yaleman Thomas Guinzburg, 29, a co-founder of the new-directional, English-language quarterly Paris Review. Onetime Cineminor...
...reasons of labor relations many an industrialist pooh-poohs reports that automation will eliminate jobs. But unless automation eliminates jobs, it is neither profitable nor practical. Detroit Machine Maker Charles F. Hautau claims that he can cut a man off the payroll for every $5,000 a manufacturer invests in Hautau's automation machinery. However, for every skill eliminated, others will be created and upgraded...