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...weapon in their research is DNA (desoxyribonucleic acid), a complex chemical found in the nuclei of cells and believed to be concerned with heredity. From the Centre de Recherches sur les Macromollécules at Strasbourg, Professor Benoit and Father Leroy secured a supply of DNA extracted from the genitals of Khaki-Campbell ducks, which are smallish birds with brown bodies and greenish-black beaks. Then they bought from a reliable dealer nine new-hatched female ducklings and three males of the Pekin breed, which is larger and creamy white, with an orange bill...
Convinced that the committee and the press have "still only scratched the sur face" in Scranton, Newsman Brislin (whose city editor says he has "vinegar in his blood") last week was digging deeper into the story that he has followed for 25 months. Over at the Times, Tom Murphy was banging away with new editorials on an issue that he spotted and tackled more than three years...
James Paul Mitchell, 56, Secretary of Labor, took over in October 1953, when Union Leader Martin Durkin resigned in a dispute about Taft-Hartley law changes. Mitchell turned out to be the biggest sur prise in the Cabinet and is now rated its fastest comer. Despite 20 years as a labor-relations expert with the WPA, the War Department and New York department stores, he had neither a name on the national labor scene nor a reputation for political astuteness when Ike brought him over from the Pentagon (Assistant Secretary of Army for Manpower and Reserve Forces' Affairs). Since...
...cried Lennie as he staggered to bed at 3 one recent morning and sur veyed the next day's schedule. "Who do I think I am ? everybody...
...moon. As Stockholm sliced eastward from New York Harbor toward Nantucket lightship, he was bothered only by ocean currents that pulled the ship two or three miles northward off course, and by the need to keep a weather eye on the duty helmsman, who was sometimes "more interested in sur rounding things than in the compass...