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...gold at Fort Knox was no more zealously guarded last week than Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's long-awaited book. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. At the University of Indiana in Bloomington, newspaper and magazine writers were allowed to pore over galley proofs on one condition: none but their editors must be told what is in the book until Aug. 20. Summaries of not more than 5,000 words may then be published. Finally (the exact date is still a secret), Kinsey (and W. B. Saunders Co.) will publish the book itself...
...Kinsey's timetable, and his elaborate briefing sessions in Bloomington, were to make sure that his findings would be presented as accurately as possible in the lay press. Not necessarily by coincidence, Kinsey was also creating the greatest fanfare in publishing history for a book that was not yet even on the presses...
...Said Dr. Kinsey last week, mindful of critics who assailed Sexual Behavior in the Human Male as harmful and useless: "Reproduction, or sex, is one of the great forces of life. Most everyone talks about sex . . . Before we can learn why humans behave sexually as they do, we've got to find out just what it is that they...
...President Kinsey Robinson of Washington Water Power, Washington's second-biggest private utility, refused to give in. First he turned to American Power & Light, which owned Washington Water Power and which, under the holding companies' "death sentence," had to get rid of its subsidiary. A P & L had made a tentative deal to sell Washington Water Power to the P.U.D.s. But Robinson, who started as a lineman and spent 14 years building his company, fought his bosses' plan. He won the backing of A.P. & L. s biggest stockholders, who persuaded the company to turn down the P.U.D.s...
...jointly or build dams to generate power. One such deal already in the making: to build a dam at Priest Rapids on the Columbia River. With power still short in the Northwest, it looks as if there is still plenty of room for private enterprise, thanks to tough-minded Kinsey Robinson...