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Impressed by his aggressiveness-'I was always reaching out and taking anything I could get my hands on"-the home office finally put Russell on the executive escalator. Shortly before Pearl Harbor he was named assistant to President A. D. McDonald, proceeded to ram through, against the judgment of his superiors, decisions on equipment allocation that enabled the S.P. to haul more freight for the Pacific war than any other railroad. In 1952, when the S.P. needed a new president, the board inevitably turned to Don Russell, who, at 51, became the line's youngest chief since...
...British Veterinarian Herbert B. Parry, whose work is supported by New York's National Foundation for Neuromuscular Diseases, reports convincing evidence from years of study on 1,000 scrapie-ridden sheep that the disease is hereditary, being transmitted by a certain type of recessive gene. If both ram and ewe have two such genes, all their lambs will have scrapie. If one animal has the genes but its mate has none, the "clear" genes will dominate, and the lambs will have no disease. Dr. Parry is still checking a theory that if both parent animals have a single scrapie...
...time of the invasion, Ramón Barquín was the military expert of the People's Revolutionary Movement, one of the autonomous organizations with representation on the council...
...manner is languid, has won a wide following among Congress Party moderates (he dismisses Marxism as "a bunch of misguided theories"), and as deputy leader he would have been clearly in line for the top job. But Defense Minister Krishna Menon rallied the leftists behind gregarious Railway Minister Jagjivan Ram, 53, the only Untouchable in the Cabinet and a longtime Nehru disciple...
...matrimonial side," says Van Brocklin candidly, "the players don't do badly, either. To name a few: Ron Waller, an ex-Ram, married the granddaughter of the cereal fortune matriarch, Marjorie Merriweather Post. Ron Miller, after a year with the Rams, took Walt Disney's daughter as his bride and moved into Disneyland. Bud McFadin is the husband of a young lady whose father owns half of West Texas. Bud now runs a dude ranch near Houston. Leon Clarke, the Rams' tall end, wed the heiress to the Beechnut chewing gum, baby food and allied products millions...