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...GEORGE W. GIBSON...
...world's undirected population explosion, concentrated among have-not peoples, hardly favors the groups "better fitted to direct man's future biological and cultural development," said Nobel Prizewinner George W. Beadle (TiME, July 14) at a Washington forum. Sure that men now have the skill if not the wisdom for "directing our own evolutionary futures." Geneticist Beadle raised an ominous question: "Can we go on indefinitely defending as a fundamental freedom the right of individuals to determine how many children they will bear, without regard to the biological or cultural consequences...
...theory, satellite policymaking is done by the high-level National Aeronautics and Space Council, chaired by President Eisenhower. But NASC is a committee, with all a committee's shortcomings; so far it has met a total of only three times. Wrote New York Times Military Columnist Hanson W. Baldwin last week: "There are any number of men [in Washington] who can say no to suggested space projects. There are very few men who can or will...
...months, during which, like Marclan, most victims show no symptoms. No cure is known. Untreated, the disease is often fatal within ten years; even with the best of care, in severe cases survival beyond 30 is rare. Last week, on the campus of integrated Marshall College in Huntington. W. Va., Marclan Walker was a focus of interest not only because she was going on 22, but because she had told her story in detail in Ebony. It was a story of living from crisis to crisis, and being pulled through each time by blood transfusions...
...always insistent on maintaining a teaching balance that keeps the Harvard faculty strongly represented," Elliott said. William Alfred, assistant professor of English, who will teach a drama course, and W. Stuart Hughes, professor of History, will be among University faculty members included in the program...