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Nameless Progenitor. Dr. Calvin sees chemical evolution fairly clearly up to DNA, but he cannot say just when the spark of life appeared. The best test of life is that the organism can make replicas of itself, taking as building materials the simpler molecules in the medium around it. The first organism to pass this divide between the living and the inert may have been a single complex molecule or a large cluster of them. This tiny, nameless primogenitor of all living matter may have used some primitive kind of photosynthesis to reproduce itself. Or perhaps it merely picked...
...these voices. In a precedent-breaking press conference in which he talked off-the-cuff in French, John spoke frankly of himself as "moi-méme," apologized for not using the traditional papal "we" with "I'm not used to it yet." He went on to say that in the excitement of the past week "it has been hard to get to sleep, so I've been reading the newspapers, not out of vanity but simply out of curiosity. I noted the vigor with which you have pursued the secrets of the conclave, but I saw scarcely...
...shrewd calculation of a gambler, the financial sagacity of a banker and the dedication of a monk, he has propelled American Airlines into first place in the industry-and in the process has done more than any other man to improve the service and standards of U.S. airlines. Says United Air Lines President W. A. Patterson: "There's no man in the industry I respect more-and you usually don't say nice things about competitors...
With the strangled sincerity of a man who would like to tell himself "say it ain't so," Huxley says...
...Night Heaven Fell (Raoul J. Levy; Kingsley International). "Is it fun to make love?" the foxy little doxy inquires as she hip-flips up to the camera and (as the French say) "makes the lip." Since the girl is played by Brigitte Bardot, she obviously has no trouble getting all sorts of answers to her question...