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Constitutional Caution. Until recently, eugenic sterilization of misfits was accepted as a social benefit that did not violate the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Speaking for the Supreme Court in the 1927 case of Buck v. Bell, Mr. Justice Holmes upheld Virginia's sterilization of mental defectives with the classic statement, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough" But scientists now consider many human defects to be as much a product of environment as of heredity...
...housewife. Although it may not need the academic abilities required by an English paper, cooking a good meal demands imagination and skill. Planning a party may not test the intelligence expected in a chemistry experiment, but it does require an acute understanding of people. Raising children may not benefit from a textbook knowledge of their physiology, but it is a responsibility which demands sensitivity and good humor. In rustic England, Miss McGinley tells us, the successful housewife would occasionally find a sixpence in her shoe, a mark of appreciation for her special skills...
Attacking English with a French accent, Swedish Actress Sallert is a lip reader's delight; baffled playgoers may feel that she is singing in tongues. As it happens, missing the show's lines is a fringe benefit, unless one relishes lame quips ("For someone who was a postmaster-general of North America, you could have written"), exclamatory archaisms ("By thunder, I know the wench!") or arch witticism ("I invented bifocals because I thought a man should be able to see the girl in his arms at one and the same time as her husband coming...
...solution to the two-fold problem might be to increase the fine for dropping a fifth course--to, let us say, $50. This might well discourage the speculative use of fifth courses as "wild cards," without frightening off those who would genuinely benefit from a fifth course but who do not care to wager as much as $230 on their ability to complete...
...text. If he has notes, he rarely follows them, flipping back and forth through them, picking out an idea here and there and presenting them in no particular order. Often he will pick a statistic out of these notes, often pausing to repeat it as much for his own benefit as for his listeners...