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Real Reason
For All-Daughter
Families?
TEN who have fathered six or more daughters
MEN
and no sons are to be investigated by doctors who believe they have stumbled on the explanation of these one-sex families,
on
the sorting
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The explanation 19 based reope scientists con detect a helic! that clear-cut difference in men and thousands perhaps women between the hereditary millions-of normal nes be-
units by which characteristics gon life as females but changed
are passed on to chiken, to males before they were born,
Because of the hereditary mechanism by which the stx of the children by determined by the futher, such
duce only daughters,
Evidence
Par-fetched as this theory may seem, a substantial amount of evidence is building up in favour of 1. Thus out ut scarly 2,000 *baby buys examined by Professor Kei Moure, a Canadian doctor, five ind changed their sex before tirth.
These children all appeared completely narsal, but micro Erople examination of the here- ditury units
frum passet an their parents showed they had begun life as kirls,
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The millions of cells makinz up a woman's body are all alike, each contrdning two identical bandler of hereditary units call- ed X-chromosomes. But in the cells of a man there are two differently shaped chromosomes -on X and a Y.
This means that a mother can pass only X-chromosomes to her children, while a man can pass on either X or Y. If the chlid
receives a Y-chromosome from its father. LL automatically develops into a boy, the ductors believed, if it gets an X Instead
becomes a girl,
taught to every medical student, This simple theory, which is will now have to be Lreatly modified,
Cause
as potential' girls. For one reson they changed their sex soon after conception and had become normal boys by the Hue they were born.
Examination of the skin cells If this theory is confirmed by of Loys by Professor Moore at a the new Inquiry it may help to Winniper hospital has shown explain many of the peculiar that many of them contain no sex changes which occur later Y-chromosomes at all - only X. In life, and other anomalies. So they must have started fe
Thus,
Investigation by Dr M. A. Ferguson-Smith in Glasgow has shown that about Birce per cent of men complain- irut
Infertility probably changed their sex before birth.
Such lys, who carry no Y- Until recently, scientists were chromozomics to pass on to their convincul That they fully offs; ring, should be incapable of understood
merbanism hovlax sona when they grow up which determines the x of Sa this may be the main cause children.
of daughters-only families.
Whut out son famille.? There is also evidence that some girls started off as boys changed their rex lure birth
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and
They were confident that whether the future infant will be a boy or girl ki irrevocably deelded at the moment of it conception-Lut The father If suen o girl married a normal pjone determined the sex. anan she would have a greater
They alsa believed that the chance of producing boys than *hance whether particular giris.
Infant would be a boy or girl
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These beliefs were found n
the fact that under the miero-
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Now, Mr K,
ring up
the curtain!
as easy to
If only it were
crash the news barriers as
it is to crash a Kremlin party.....
is New York for me in the Comet, with Moscow a memory and London and Lancashire pleasant interludes. The surprises continue. I have been colder walking by the canal bank in Cherry Tree, which is between Preston and Blackburn, than I was a few days ago in Moscow, Kiev, and Leningrad.
I have found the houses in the north Inndinquately heated by Russian hotel Actually, Moscow hotels are overheated, as are New York hotels,
I have had to get beck into the habit cf. tipping again. Only a few Russians recepled lips during my trip, and at the House of Journalists, where Mr Mucmillan held his mammoth Press conference, the cleakroom attendant was angry and hurt when I gave him couple of roubles.
He said: "In cur country WO regard
50 adj
bribe."
1
a capitalist
DON IDDON'S
BACK FROM MOSCOW
DIARY
Buck home in England, of sian terminals
ᎦᏁᎳ . Incl- course, we don't. You can say dentally, the alories uf
the famous at again. I haven't seen sin
Moscow Underground many outstretched palms since have not been exaggerated. Florida,
My welcome home was luke-
warm compared with my depar
Breath-taking
standards.
can President is much MOTE heavily guarded.
It is the Anniter point: easiest thing in the world to gatecrash a Kremlin reception presided over by Khrushchey. You just get your car or laxi to for the line of cars descending cathe Kremit--no policeman or gund will halt you-yave white envelope, and you are through and up the great stair- ease and ready to tackle the cavlare and champagne. No vodka was served at the Krem- lin reception this time. Ruslan drinking has been cut down drastically
Khrushchev climbed halfway
water wagon. Similarly, there was little formality or security sur- rounding Mr Macmillan, Abcut a Afth of the men and women at the Press conference spero no more journalists thàn my cousin Jee Spencer. Here in England and in the United States I find
on
ture from Moscow. The cld These subway stations are the oficials more strict. mcre dear who ran the 14th flory of quite breath-taking with their insistent en credentials, and the Ukraina Hotel and who had lang, deep, mahogany escala- well
my shirts beautifully laundered tors, their immaculate marble crashers.
ten hours greeted me like her walls, well-washed platforms, favourite son when I returned and sleek trains. merely from Leningrad. When
My train from Leningrad
I left fer London and said Moscow
goodbye she broke down and cried.
in
The Russitus are very emo- tional, sentimentul, easily Tears or laughter. She refused, of course, a tip, but I gave her a small leather purse.
Work harder
WAS
to
guarded against gate-
Since I got back my friends
have been shooting questions at
I have told them: pn aristocrat
me. among trains compared with the In my opinion the Russians 1.25 frem London to Preston. do not want war. They suffered Mind you, It was a special Red enough in the last one. The Arrow-type train carrying
are not beaten down, Mr tussions Masmillen and the red carpet was out. The and trembling
and Mr Mikoyan, or oppressed or living in fear
under Khrush sleeping compartmenta
chev. were luxuricus, with a small shower, and the dining-room blcomed with flowers, fine linen, glitter-
ing silverware. Also, the chicken
Some answers
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la Klev WRS excellent, al- London Icoked bright
They are much better dressed and though I have had enough and fed than I imagined. They brilliant after Moscow, and the caviare and chicken Kiev to lost are wretchedly housed, but the people seem to work harder... mefetime, which may surprise you. Over
blocks of nets are going up, in And I have no complaints rows as grim and forbidding as and over again saw Rusians about food on British railways Sing Sing. lying down on the job. The now, The mulligalawny scup. claim is there is no unemploy plate with sauce Tartare, baby women, are a gay, lively like ment in the Soviet Union, so the lamb, apple tart, and Cheddar jobs tre spread thin. From what cheese were all exe llent
and
The Russions, particularly the
able loi with "müzle In their I saw of Russia there was con- the service impeccaule.
Also hearts, The great mass are not „siderable....... slacking and win-Laine rollick along at about Particularly interested in Come
efficiency.
twice the speed of the Russian munism, but the interpreters, the teachers, the doctors, the Five waitresses would to in wonendebe duringAmservereviny utterly mum intelligentia are deser the live
FROTTWY W Hennes gaming toplayakan bakplaat om The BEST OF
shadowed, or listened in on.
a beer (there was mulch the some scene in Manchester, yes- torday, at the London Road station, but this time there were only three waitresses neglecting the customers).
I was rather depressed
Red Arrow.
Lax security
all "syslems and will surely mako Russia the unchallenge- able Number One Power.
The lack treedom of the Press is the saddest feature of Censorship
On the whole I found secur- Russian life, in my opinion as
fly measures lox in the Soviet newspaperman,
by Union. Photographers literally was clamped down a few hours British stations after the salen- mobbed Khrushchey and Mac after we left. This is foolish, deur and megalAcence of Lênin- milion and I was frequently Khrushchev can afford now to grad and Moscow stations. The rubbing shoulders cnd treading let the barriers down and ring attempt to make attic Riviera on the toes of Khrushchev, Malik; up the Iron Curtrin. outdoors. D sart of coccicil Gromyko, etc.
Severs! readers send in lounge under dingy, discoloured If anyone had wanted to do queries, Here are a few answers: umbrellas, at Eusions sad. bedfly harm or worse to the There is no credit system and no Our stations are dirty com- Russian leader it would have hire-purchase in the Soviet pared with
the two mala Rus- been as easy as ple. An Amerl- Unien. There is modest income tax but huge sales tax. The State owns all businesses, but some people run one-man businesses. What they can't do is employ another person in their business. A few have their own cara, and there is a Russian elite who live the guded life. You can leave money and property your. heirs,
Mid Week Selection by Friell
JODRELL
BANK
FITO.
RUSSIA: AMERICA: -Sputnik in Orbit | Racket oring Round SUN inte Orbit
round SUN
"New # they could only get into orbit over Berlin
that would really Be Progress . . 2.
to
There are more motor-ents in the big cities than I expected. Most are small, as in England, but during my visit there are Tow after row of official big black limousines, almost exact coples of the American Packard or Cadillac town car. Why the Russians who invented the sputnik chould have to copy American cars is beyond me.
And now to wind it up and get back to New York and Washington.
Mr. Macmillan's visit to Itussia, his journey to Europo, his forthcoming trip to Canada and the. Uulted Sialos have shown Itumia and world
WHEN THE
HORN OF THE
HUNTRESS...!
-Tally-ho Sixth Form!
THIS department, always anxious to find a subject which has nothing to do with NATO; or UNESCOS but la of vital importance to us all, let out a loud "Yolcks" when we read that an eighteen-year-old grammar school girl is to become a Master of Foxhounds.
Members of the Anti-Blood Sports brigade will rejoice that this swop- ping of the old-type Jorracks for a prefect from the gentler sex is a
move towards their demand tor the use of electric foxes instead of the real thing.
As our old M.F.H. said to me when be read the sad news," Blast," he said, "if we're going to have schoolgirls leading our packs we'll be drinking our stirrup cups in the espresso bar " The accompanying sketches show only a few of the automatic changes which will over- take the hunt.
Passed To You
THE Americans have a word for it. The word is "gobbledygook." It means incomprehensible official
jargon.
But nothing Washington has ever turned out could possibly equal this Whitehall gobbledygook from the National Insurance Bill now before Parliament:-
"For the purpose of this Part of the Schedule a person over pensionable age, not being an insured person, stati be treated as an employed person if he would be an insured person worn ha under pensionsble are and would be an employed person were be an insured personi,"
Well, naturally,
the "9"
that the British have
seized the initiative.
With two zick man in Wash- Ingion, factillanle the Western Leader, and London. has become again
of the West.
the capital
"COTLAND Yard ́has'a 'new department. It is referred to
cryptically as "Da".
It is the patien, dog department. Plans are afoot to extend the use of these canine cops, malaly to protect property,
As recruits, Da prefers elsatiang nine to eighteen months old.
The
Papsy- Coakie
Clums
SILES
"Keep your lamps on the fox, Rodney - big wifie is watching you"
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QUOTES
by Lord Shepherd, a 50-year- old company director, talking in the Lords about the Under- ground add other London rail- way services:-
to A
elvilised. Blate.
STUIE conditions at 'a pouk 1 period are an utter disgrace If any farmer put calllà into a railway Arnick na ww uut human belagi, ho would be before the 128gle- trste wilh a heavy far,