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Walkie-talkies had not been invented in 1910, when Humorist Robert Benchley delivered his uproariously unmedical lecture, "Through the Alimentary Canal with Gun and Camera," so the imaginary expedition from gullet to fundament could make no on-the-spot broadcasts of its progress. Last week Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research announced the development of a tiny capsule FM transmitter that can make just such broadcasts. It is small enough (|⅛in. long, 4/10 in. in diameter) to be swallowed like an oversized pill. Conceived by New York Physician John T. Farrar, the plastic-encased transmitter was designed...
Spanking is one way of forcing a baby to breathe and live. Last week Baby UNO got a sharp whack across its little red fundament. The slap was a demand that it investigate the "interference of the Soviet Union, through the medium of their officials and armed forces, in the internal affairs of Iran...
Never had the fleshy, Falangist fundament of fat Francisco Franco felt a smarter whacking than it got last week...
...eight-year man in the House, with more of Washington's shoe-polish than of Texas' alkali on his boots. Martin Dies had, with all his unfairness as a prosecutor and ineptitude as an investigator, become the Opposition's favorite splinter in the Administration's fundament. His continuance as an inquisitor specifically demonstrated other things...
...taking off the feathers because I am going to eat this chicken when I get home. I was once a barber and an expert hairdresser and I know all about things like this. It is not hurting the little chicken." Looking skeptically at the little chicken's nude fundament, Mr. Nelson was not so sure. He began to fight with Mr. Berger. At 42nd St. they were pried apart, taken to a nearby station house. Mr. Nelson promptly charged Mr. Berger with cruelty to animals. A policeman took the little chicken into the next room, knocked...