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...Idant each deposit is carefully analyzed and a sampling of the sperm counted in an electronic device to establish the semen's degree of fertility. The semen is then stored in thin plastic "straws," labeled, placed within a cigar-shaped aluminum container and chilled to -321° F. in liquid nitrogen. Sperm banks are inordinately careful to guard against unauthorized use of their resources. Donors are blood-typed, for instance, because certain substances are common to both individual sperm and blood and thus serve to identify "ownership" of the substance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Frozen Assets | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

...thinking he had stumbled onto the set of a western movie. In the lobby, men stalked about brandishing shotguns and fistfuls of ammunition. But instead of taking money out, they were putting it in. The bank was giving away shotguns to anyone taking out a 21-year certificate of deposit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fast Drawing Account | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

...student informed the College February 1 that he will return the following September, the College would guarantee him a room in the House with which he was affiliated before leaving. He would be required to pay a deposit on his room rent, then his name would be entered in the Spring lottery for sophomores entering the House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Epps May Ask Students on Leave For Early Notice of Their Return | 11/20/1971 | See Source »

DEAD DROP or DEAD-LETTER BOX: A hiding place where an agent can deposit or collect messages and material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Picnics and Wet Stuff | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

...that way. Just a short stroll from 221B Baker Street, London, where Sherlock Holmes once dwelt, a bold gang broke through the floor of a closed handbag shop, dug a 40-ft. tunnel, and cut through two feet of concrete into a vault containing about 1,000 safe-deposit boxes in Lloyds Bank at 185 Baker Street. It was a case similar to the episode in which Holmes captured two tunneling bank crooks in A. Conan Doyle's The Red-Headed League -"a three-pipe problem," as Dr. Watson would have called it. But although policemen could actually hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Red-Faced League | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

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