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Spreading Blight. The effect of Lysenkoism on Soviet agriculture was disastrous. While other countries were using genetics to improve their crop yields mightily, the Soviet Union fell behind. None of Lysenko's alleged achievements ever proved practical. Most of his startling, experimental "results," never described in full detail, appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Fall of a Geneticist | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

A Cork for Svengali. The time is after Stalingrad; the place is the Black Sea area. The German situation is hopeless, and the task of Corporal Rolf Steiner's wounded platoon is near-suicidal. Its job is to stay behind as a rearguard while the rest of the battalion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Corporal's Inferno | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

The freshman lacrosse team managed to stave off an M.I.T. rally to win a 7-6 contest despite some sloppy playing in the season opener.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Sports | 4/18/1956 | See Source »

This policy looked as if it might prove dangerous as sloppy tackling let the Barbarians through for their first try in the fortieth minute. (13 to 3.)

Author: By Alastair J.C.E. Rellie, | Title: Rugby Team Subdues Barbarians; Finishes Game Missing Three Men | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

¶ A fat and sloppy caricature of the man who had once been the greatest heavyweight fist fighter in the world, Joe Louis pulled on a pair of red bathing trunks and tangled with Cowboy Rocky Lee in a professional wrestling match at Washington's Uline Arena. Broke, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Mar. 26, 1956 | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

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