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Survival of the Fittest. Financed by a grant from the U.S. Agriculture Department, Plant Pathologist Isaac Wahl began his search for resistant oats in Israel-on the theory that the varieties of wild oats growing there must have built up some sort of immunity. "In the process of evolution over millions of years," he explains, "the survival of the fittest applies to cereal grains...
...York City, Justice Maurice Wahl refused to permit one Robert Paul Jama to add "von" to his last name. In his ruling, Judge Wahl noted that "von" occurred as a prefix in German and Austrian names, "especially of the nobility," and cited Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits the grant of any title of nobility. "I'm a veteran of both World Wars," declared Judge Wahl, "and when this fellow had the nerve to say he wanted a German genealogy because all his friends and acquaintances were German, that was too much...
...when Wahl saw the colonel coming, he tried to hide in between some sandbags, for he was on the line in a T-shirt, which was not regulation uniform. The colonel dug him out, however, and two hours later he was on the phone with his parents in Stoughton...
Jacobs does not confine his efforts solely to medical emergencies--he performs morale-boosting missions as well. During the Dominican crisis, he was asked by anxious parents to contact Lance Corporal Martin E. Wahl, who was in combat with the Marines on the island. Jacobs spoke to Wahl's colonel, who personally went out to the firing lines to look...
...year ago, Mrs. James charged that Powell evaded attachment for the judgment by fraudulently transferring title to his $50,000 house in Puerto Rico to his wife's aunt and uncle. Twice, Powell ignored fact-finding trials. Last week, forced to assume that the charge was true, Justice Wahl ordered Powell to pay Mrs. James $75,000 in compensatory and $500,000 in punitive damages. Summing up his opinion of Powell, Justice Wahl indignantly paraphrased a famous insult attributed to Virginia's 19th century Senator John Randolph: "He is a man of splendid abilities, but he shines...