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...genes which cannot be altered by ordinary environmental conditions). That belief made him a heretic in Russia, where science must take the Communist view that Environment Is All. Last year Zhebrak was roundly denounced by Pravda for admitting in the U.S. weekly, Science, that many Russian geneticists still uphold Mendel's laws (TIME, Sept...
...poll only complicated the Labor government's dilemma. To uphold the House of Commons, it might have to adopt a bill it had not really wanted. On the other hand, if it followed public opinion, it would be upholding the almost, but not quite, forgotten Lords...
This leaves exactly four men to uphold Crimson prestige in the 72nd annual, 47-college championships: Sam Felton and John Thorndike in the 16-pound and polevaulters Owen Torrey and Bill Lawrence. Felton, the hammer favorite, thinks he'll have to throw about 185 feet to beat Jim Burnham of Dartmouth and Maine's Marsanskis. Final exams have prevented him from getting into shape, though. His teammate, Thorndike, may take fourth or fifth. Felton may also place in the discus...
...ideas must emphatically mean that we do not uphold any regime abroad, no matter how corrupt, provided only that it is antiCommunist. At its best such a course would be stupidity, at its worst it would be nihilism. In any event it would simply strengthen the Communist cause. We are not-we must not be-on the horns of a dilemma of which one prong is Communism and the other prong is Fascism...
Warns Beard: "If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of American foreign affairs, the Constitution may be nullified by the President, officials, and officers who have taken the oath, and are under moral obligation to uphold it. For limited government under supreme law they may substitute personal and arbitrary government-the first principle of the totalitarian system against which, it has been alleged, World War II was waged-while giving lip service to the principle of constitutional government...