Word: 1960s
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...example: > Artificial insemination by donor (AID), or a woman being inseminated by a donor's sperm, has been widely practiced since the 1960s and has led to about 250,000 births in the U.S. alone, but the law is only gradually accepting it. A New York court ruled in 1963 that a child born by AID was illegitimate even if the mother's husband consented; another New York court ruled the opposite a decade later. Now 25 states, including New York, have statutes governing AID babies, recognizing them as the legitimate children of mother and her husband (providing...
Except for trips to St. Croix, there is no indication the Zaccaro family traveled widely, except on business, or entertained expensively. They have paid off the mortgages on their Forest Hills and Fire Island houses, purchased in the 1960s...
When Mark McCormack, a well-known business manager of sports figures and a self-made millionaire, gave guest lectures at Harvard Business School in the late 1960s, he sensed in the students' questions an academic naivete about business. He thought they needed "street smarts." Now McCormack has helped out by writing What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School (Bantam; $15.95), a potpourri of tips for anyone who works for a company, runs one or wants...
...Brick, lacks the brooding charisma of Paul Newman in the 1958 movie version, he provides a rare sight: a Brick who actually looks and talks like the ex-football player he is supposed to be. (Jones was an all-Ivy, all-East offensive guard at Harvard in the 1960s.) Kim Stanley (who played Maggie in the 1958 London production of Cat) makes Big Mama a more sympathetically human figure than one has a right to expect. Only Rip Torn, as Big Daddy, seems miscast. He has the bluster but not the bombast of the aging tycoon, and his Southern accent...
...recent years scientists have attempted to take up where the philosophers and alchemists left off. The results have been disappointing. In the 1960s Dr. Landrum Shettles of New York City's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center created a sensation with his announcement that gender was influenced by the timing of conception within the menstrual cycle and by the acidity or alkalinity of the female reproductive tract. A douche of vinegar, he contended, would confer an advantage on sperm bearing an X chromosome (for females), while a douche of baking soda would shift the odds toward the Y-bearing sperm...