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...Victor McKusick, a geneticist at Johns Hopkins University, was in the game much earlier. He has been cataloging genes since 1959, compiling findings in his regularly updated publication, Mendelian Inheritance in Man. In August 1987 he introduced an electronic version that scientists around the world can tap into by computer. At the end of December it contained information on all the 4,550 genes identified to date. Says McKusick: "That's an impressive figure, but we still have a long way to go." Several other libraries of genetic information are already functioning, among them GenBank at the Los Alamos National...
Behind the cameras were almost all the directors whose work is so avidly studied in the film schools, a group that included John Ford, George Cukor, George Stevens, Cecil B. DeMille, Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh, William Wyler, Busby Berkeley, Henry King, Ernst Lubitsch and Victor Fleming. Behind them were the producers, who were far more important then than they are now, men such as David O. Selznick, Sam Goldwyn, Darryl F. Zanuck, Pandro S. Berman, Hal Wallis and Arthur Hornblow...
...winner will play tomorrow night in the 8:30 championship game against the victor of the St. Lawrence-Cornell semifinal game. On the line: a league title and an automatic bid to the NCAA playoffs...
...says, "I'm a wasp. You know how a wasp buzzes around and keeps you on your toes and worries about everything. There's a sound in the air that keeps everything moving." At times the buzz becomes a sonic boom. "Jerry was still rehearsing during previews," says Victor Castelli, a City Ballet soloist who is assisting Robbins. "The kids are exhausted because they are not used to it, and Jerry will be frustrated and annoyed and will yell and scream." But those who have survived Robbins' basic training testify to its effectiveness. "The theater is not all pats...
After conferring with her husband at Victor Verster Prison near Cape Town last week, Mandela canceled a planned press conference. Three days later, Mandela reportedly agreed to remove the bodyguards from her home. But the decision left unexplained whether she had been oblivious to the misdeeds of her football team or had encouraged them. Through most of her husband's 26- year imprisonment, Winnie Mandela seemed a true heroine, undiminished by loneliness, police harassment, detention and banishment. Now, even to old friends, she is a mystery...