Word: snell
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When a movie star is billed as having "it" or "oomph," what she probably has is heterosis (hybrid vigor). At least, that is what Geneticist George D. Snell says. In the current Quarterly Review of Biology, Snell assembles evidence to show that superior qualities in humans, including physical attractiveness, are often due to heterosis, resulting from the crossing of two strains...
...Snell describes heterosis in the case of swine (Hampshires crossed with Duroc Jerseys produced superior pigs). Since he cannot repeat the same experiment with people, he sifts a great mass of records to look for self-propelled experiments in human hybridization...
Paul Garrig (H) beat Jack Snell (MIT), 15-9, 16-13, 15-9, and Matt Reynolds (H) won over Ron Gibson (MIT), 15-11, 15-7, 15-10. Fifth man Hank Swigert (H), who is the only junior on the team, beat Joe Melavas...
Twenty-five minutes later, after the treasure had been found on Snell Isle, Timesmen began to tot up the results of their promotion stunt: six people were injured in auto accidents; several women fainted in the mob scene at the Times building; one woman, pacing off the clue in the dark, walked out into Boca Ciega Bay and had to be pulled out; four people had to be dragged out of waist-deep mud; the crowd ripped up stakes on a building site, which will now have to be resurveyed. But the Times seemed to think it was all worth...
Over 100 undergraduates, chosen at random from the College phone book, gathered at Whitman Half last night for a "Homecoming Dance, gives an honor of John Snell '53 (pictured left), Suell's name was arbitrarily picked from the phone directory...