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Minter and Cox wanted to remain in Holmes County and continue their missionary work at their cooperative farm there. Both felt that time might show the local citizenry its mistake, and that they could still run their project. If a nationwide protest arose, however, as could easily happen if Northerners clamored, it would only serve to drive the townspeople together and make them even more hostile to the missionary work...
...League, where coaches are sure of their jobs, this story could never have taken place. It could only happen in the Far West, where football is king and victories are worth gold. It is a tale that will make some football coaches turn in their sleep, but Lloyd Jordan, even with a 2-4-1 record, need loss no sleep it could never happen at Harvard...
Britain's interest in a topic long pigeonholed by science was spurred by a report that Eugenist Helen Spurway gave at University College in London. Among humans, she declared, virgin birth could not happen in the case of a hermaphrodite, who would not be self-fertile. However, parthenogenesis* might occur. This is the process by which an ovum begins to divide spontaneously, without having been fertilized by a sperm-perhaps after it has made up for the missing male chromosomes by a form of doubling. It is almost certain that the offspring of parthenogenesis would be a female, since...
Strange things happen in the first act of Thernton Wilder's new comedy. Wealthy Yonkers merchant Horace Vandergelder, despite his belief that "99 percent of the people in the world are fools, and the rest of us we in great danger of contigioa," decides to rejoin the fools and get married again. Cornelius Hackl and Barnaby Tucker, two conscientious clerks in Vandergelder's store, imperiously decide to close the place up and head for New York City, where, for the first time in their lives, they may perhaps get to kiss a girl. And Mrs. Levi, the widowed "matchmaker" whom...
...Will you listen, Americans?" Talmadge asks in the book. "Segregation in the South . . . has proven itself to the best interest of both races . . . Nations composed of a mongrel race lose their strength and become weak, lazy and indifferent . . . easy preys to outside nations . . . exactly what the Communists want to happen to the United States." Talmadge offers to segregationalists a two-point program 1) the whites must organize from the county level, to head off creeping integration; 2) white voters must beware of that "candidate . . . who will make deals, sell...