Word: paramecia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lecturing remained vivid five years later when, after working eighty-four hours a week for a year in a steel plant, Boring went back to Cornell. He intended to try for an A.M. in physics, so he could teach, but again got trapped into psychology--this time by earthworms, paramecia, and flatworms...
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...