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...American Academy of Arts and Sciences yesterday announced the election of 24 members of the University faculty to its fellowship. At the same time the Academy elected Francis Birch, professor of Geology, to one of its vice-presidential positions for the coming year...
...hemophiliac, having a tooth pulled is dangerous and may be fatal. A rubber band is the answer worked out by the University of Illinois' Dr. Carroll La Fleur Birch: slipped around the base of the tooth, it works its way down and forces the tooth out. Extraction, rubber-band style, may take from five to 105 days...
...week's end Tory M.P. Eric Bullus announced that he would draft a bill for the restoration of the birch and possibly the cat, and 41 Tories formally requested a full debate on corporal punishment...
...attached to a 20-in. handle. The cat was applied across the bare back-in recent times, in the presence of a doctor-after neck and kidneys had been protected against permanent injury. Maximum number of strokes for civilian offenders: 50. A milder alternative ordered by judges was the birch, a yard-long bundle of twigs, soaked" in water and whacked across bare buttocks...
...horrible effect has to be seen to be believed. When someone lets a cosh fall on a bench in court ... it makes one shudder to think of the effect of it on a human head." A longtime believer in corporal punishment, Judge Goddard asked for the return of the birch, which, when "laid on by a chief warder who knew his business, not only gave them a taste of something unpleasant, but led to considerable ridicule." Tory Lord Chancellor Simonds protested that Judge Goddard's proposal "would put the clock back 100 years." A newspaper poll of M.P.s showed...