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...ball went astray and Repsher raced after it. He was, however, cleanly tackled by a Princeton end--a flagrantly illegal maneuvre that permitted the Tigers to recover the fumble. 35,000 paying customers saw this, but the referees apparently did not. At any rate, the Tigers were awarded possession, and three plays later they had their second touchdown. This conversion (like the first one) they made on a reverse pass...
...King has excluded the more literate but less trustworthy Palestinians from key posts in the army, depending instead upon tribal loyalties of the Bedouins in eastern Jordan. Only martial law upholds the government, only the army's loyalty sustains the throne, only U.S. aid poured in at the rate of $50 million a year keeps the economy going. Since Hussein threw out a pro-Nasser Cabinet 18 months ago, and even more so since the Iraqis murdered his Hashemite cousin King Feisal last July. Hussein has been isolated in the Arab world...
...house is a postwar phenomenon in Japan, and the old country will never be the same. During the war 4,000,000 families saw their delicate paper houses go up in smoke, and the ramshackle wooden shacks that the government hastily threw together afterward have been destroyed, at the rate of 30,000 a year, by fire and typhoon. To take care of the millions of homeless, the government picked a go-getting, 72-year-old banker named Hisaakira Kano, a former viscount. Kano's philosophy was simple but radical: "With too many people and too little land...
...Transduction. The other half of the medicine prize was awarded to Professor Joshua Lederberg (33) of the University of Wisconsin, whom his colleagues unstintingly rate as a genius. When 22 and working under Tatum as a graduate student at Yale, Lederberg proved that bacteria have a sex life of a sort, i.e., reproduce by the union of two organisms, with a consequent exchange of genes. This discovery widely expanded the field of experiment, since bacteria are even handier than molds in genetic experiments...
...Western Hemisphere, the U.S. is threatened by the high fertility rate in some countries south of the Rio Grande," said Rock. "Mexico and Puerto Rico are good examples," he added...