Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extra head in the middle of its back. To the botanist, it means a plant combining growths of differing genetic makeup-usually the result of grafting. Now British medical scientists are discovering human chimeras, in which one person has some of the body cells of another, invariably a twin...
First case so reported was that of a Mrs. McK., whose red cells were 60% type O and 40% type A (TIME, July 20, 1953). It seemed clear that she had derived them in the womb from a twin brother, but medical detectives could get only circumstantial evidence because the brother died in infancy. Now, in the British Medical Journal, research teams report two cases with both twins alive...
...healthy woman of 29, then mother of two, presented herself for blood grouping (as a precaution before birth of a third child) at the Essex County Hospital, Colchester, last July. She was found to have 49% type O cells, 51% type A. Her twin brother was called in, found to have 61% type A, 39% type O. Mrs. W.'s husband is type O; so are all three of their children...
When Miss W., 21, made a donation at the North London Blood Transfusion Centre, the typing of her blood proved tricky: it turned out to be 99% type O, 1% type A. Her twin brother showed 86% type A, 14% type...
...world and especially U.S. leadership faces up to the twin probabilities that poverty can be universally extinguished and that war means universal extinction, then, argues Berle hopefully, "opportunity does exist for a century of peace . . . more soundly based even than that of the Victorian...