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...current A.M.A. Journal, University of California Psychiatrist Frederick G. Worden and Psychologist James T. Marsh supply some of the facts about men who confuse their sex identity. They studied a group of American men of normal male appearance (testes, beard, etc.) who sought to lose their masculinity by surgery. Finding: each of the men really thought that he was a woman who had been given a man's body by mistake...
...Irving, Texas, a suburb (pop. 25,000) of Dallas, voters ended a strange school battle by a drastic expedient: they voted to abolish the Irving school district (by consolidating with Dallas), and thus ousted the seven-man school board that had 1). fired Superintendent John L. Beard, and 2) dismissed seven out of eight principals and some 200 pro-Beard teachers and employees who had protested Beard's firing by refusing to show up for work. Beard, who insists that he was fired because some of his teachers sided against Governor Shivers in the last gubernatorial primary, still...
Along the way they learned to live a life of simple utility. Nixon would shave his heavy, black beard close in the morning with a safety razor, then would slick up with his electric razor (if local voltage permitted) before dinner. Pat found it easiest to wash out her own nylons at overnight stops...
...Karamazov thrown in. Deliot is a French lawyer, an ancient case-horse just about ready for pasture. A bachelor, from the bees in his bonnet to the flies on his vest, he is grimy, grouchy, up to his knees in litter, and almost down to his belt in beard...
...Caucasian; the inlaid eyes date back to Sumeria. The staff in the hand is a later addition; no one knows whether the figure actually carried a staff, an offering, or a weapon. The pack on the back resembles the wings and tail of a great bird, and the pointed beard can be taken for a beak. The girdle is an ancient Middle Eastern symbol of power, worn by lion-strangling heroes in the bloody days of Assurnasirpal. The powerfully striding thighs are molded with an easy naturalism virtually unknown until the time of the Greeks, yet the cylindrical form...