Word: y
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Without newspapers, the procedures of life change. Tired men, sick of the human race after a long, gabby day at the office, cannot escape into the life story of Y. A. Tittle or the political perils of Harold Macmillan, but must go on talking to strangers all the way to Westport...
...pairs of autosomes (nonsex chromosomes), one of each pair being derived from the father and one from the mother, and two gonosomes (sex chromosomes). In a woman, the gonosomes are both Xs, one each from father and mother; in a man, they are an X from mother and a Y from father. Among the autosomes, the two members of each pair behave alike. But the Ohno team showed that a woman's two Xs behave quite differently (except in her egg cells). One acts like an autosome, and so does a man's single X. But a woman...
...Chez Vous (The French People in Your Home), the series uses mimes, comedians and chausonniers to act out idioms and grammatical structure. Actress Addams' show is the work of Hachette, the big Paris publisher that supplies every French schoolchild with books. Titled En France Comme Si Vous y Etiez (As If You Were in France), it guides the audience through 26 half-hour slices of French life. Both snows make most educational TV look like home movies...
...weigh 220. Everybody's feeling the strain." If the weary Packers win their way into the N.F.L. playoff, they will face a New York Giants team, coached by canny Allie Sherman, that is far stronger and far fresher than the squad they trounced last time around. Giant Quarterback Y. A. ("Yat") Tittle is this year's master of the long pass, the touchdown "bomb," has thrown more scores (27) than any other pro. Giant Halfback Frank Gifford is riding the crest of a spectacular comeback after a year's retirement, and Tittle's favorite receiver...
Died. General Alfredo Kindelán y Duary, 83, chief of General Francisco Franco's rebel air force during the Spanish Civil War, a Cuban-born marquis who as a young man was an avid balloonist fired up by the writings of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, became Spain's first full-fledged military pilot; of a heart ailment; in Madrid. Though Kindelán was the man in charge in 1937, historians absolve him of blame in the well-remembered bombardment of Guernica, the first time that aircraft were employed systematically to annihilate a defenseless civilian...