Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough to cure the nation's sick divorce laws. What the U.S. really needs is something far more drastic: a complete new approach that totally banishes "fault" and all its sleazy consequences. The most sensible solution would be a system that readily grants divorce only after skilled clinicians confirm that a marriage is beyond repair. In many cases, divorce might be harder to get; in all, it would be far more humane...
...chronicles the dizzying evolution of kinetic sculpture, the latest fad, from such beginnings as Dadaist Marcel Duchamp's 1913 mobile. SHOW BUSINESS notes how TV brought about the hideously funny reincarnation of Batman, a comic strip still fondly remembered by the middleaged. And MEDICINE seems to confirm again that many old wives' tales contain a granule of fact; the human palm, it now appears, does reveal secrets - but not the kind looked for by devotees of palmistry...
...letters [Jan. 14] on your story confirm my opinion that most Americans are prudish and childish. Dr. Masters may come upon some fact that will reduce the number of divorces caused by infidelity and frigidity...
Star X is so dim and distant, says Feibelman, that its brightening could probably not be detected by visual or photographic observations through a telescope. But photoelectric measurements could confirm Einstein's prediction...
Feeding Fruit Flies. Their long search, the three Cornell researchers report in Nature, turned up six still-unidentified chemical compounds that apparently had been produced by the irradiation of the sugar found in coconut milk. To confirm their unexpected finding, they irradiated pure sugar and fed it to the buds and roots of other plants and to fruit flies. Again, although the sugar itself was not radioactive, it produced radiation-like results in both the experimental plants and insects; normal growth was noticeably stunted and damaged or altered chromosomes were found...