Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benzedrine Letdown. Fearful of wrenching the new-made state apart at the seams, the parliamentarians of the Knesset have been egg-walking through a series of compromises between the secular and sacred. The rabbinate has even made a few tactical concessions (most recent: rescinding the rule that before marriage all brides must produce a "certificate of purity" given after a visit to the ritual bath). But for the most part, Polish-born Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Herzog and his fellow rabbis have dug in their heels and refused to budge, confident in the prophecy of the great 12th century philosopher...
Growing Up. A mystery that has fascinated philosophers for thousands of years is how a complete organism develops out of a single fertilized egg cell. Biologist C. H. Waddington of the University of Edinburgh reports that it is a mystery still. The biologists can bother fertilized ova in all sorts of ways, but they cannot explain how the apparently simple cell can, all by itself, construct something as complicated as a whale...
What is this old Chinese custom (mentioned in the Aug. 3 story on the CIA) that the theoretical winner of a theoretical battle pays tribute to the theoretical loser? Or did TIME lay a 1,000-year-old egg...
...TIME scrambled an ancient egg. In China, as elsewhere, the loser pays...
...John knows that denationalizing a socialized industry is almost as tough a job as unscrambling an egg. Even after selling two-thirds of Templeborough, for instance, the government still owns half of it. Reason: it still owns United Steel Companies, Ltd., owner of the remaining third of Templeborough; since United also owns half of William Cooke, its own third plus its half interest in Cooke's third totals...