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Whether or not a man's genes may predispose him to criminal tendencies, Chemist Linus Pauling believes that they may have a lot to do with his mental state. This has been proved for a few relatively uncommon conditions such as phenylketonuria (PKU), in which a defective gene leaves the baby unable to metabolize phenylalanine. The resulting metabolic upset damages the brain and causes mental retardation. But Dr. Pauling would go much farther. In Science, he suggests that because of genetic as well as environmental differences, some people may need more of certain vitamins or other essential nutrients than...
Guerrilla at the Point. As a result, peace talks or not, General Abrams is certain to encounter considerably more heavy fighting in the South when he takes over from Westmoreland. Fortunately for the U.S., intensive fighting is an art at which Abrams has long demonstrated both instinctive mastery and uncommon zeal. Born in Feeding Hills, Mass., the son of a repairman on the Boston & Albany railroad, Creighton Abrams grew up learning to drill tin cans with a rifle, raising baby beef as a 4-H farm boy, and driving around in his Model T. In high school he was both...
...Salber, the Director of the Martha May Eliot Family Health Center in Bromley-Heath, one of Boston's housing projects, stopped to dig out an article on the Center. A coworker took up the conversation. "Yes, there's rubbish in the halls, and it's not uncommon to find vomit on the steps or urine in the elevators...
...name convincingly; May Robson plays the dowager matron with a haughtiness that is classic; George, the dog, comes across as throughly repellent; and the two leopards--there are two leopards--achieve the remarkable feat of defining characters distinct from each other, a tribute to professional animals of uncommon talent or to the director who knows his way around them...
Amplified Whirlpool. Such scenes have not been uncommon during the past three weeks on the latest U.S. tour by the Jimi Hendrix Experience-Hendrix plus Englishmen Noel Redding on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums. Their music, when Jimi pauses to concentrate on it, is a whirlpool where the currents of Negro blues and psychedelic rock meet, and it churns with all but overwhelming power from their nine amplifiers and 18 speakers. But it is no more than a conveyor on which the high-riding Hendrix projects his anti-personality: wild, woolly and wicked...