Word: microgeneticist
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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National politics fills October with the sounds of rallies. President Kennedy stumps the country on his "Peace and Prosperity" platform... In Boston, a microgeneticist is arrested for publishing an "obscene" paper on paramecia reproduction. Harry Levin testifies in her favor, but Judge Lewis Goldberg finds the paper "obscene, indecent, and impure." "The author's descriptive powers are truly impressive, and she rises to great literary heights describing the life cycle of the creatures," Goldberg says. "And then she descends into the filthy gutter." Mary I. Bunting is fined $2,000, and President Pusey announces "with regret" that she will...
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