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...improve the process, Bhattacharya moved to the Max Planck Institute for Animal Breeding at Hagen, Germany, where he went to work under the direction of Zoologist Gham Gottschewski. Using rabbits, which are not only cheaper than cattle but much quicker to breed, he inseminated thousands of does with sperm that had been allowed to settle under varying conditions. His early results were not promising, but after three years of experimentation he hit on a winning combination. He mixed rabbit sperm with egg yolk and glycol, and stored the solution for twelve hours in a refrigerator at slightly above the freezing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sex by Sedimentation | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

...making money without working, which for Tony means playing golf. Not that he hasn't tried: last year's No. 4 money winner (with $67,112) took five weeks of vacation this spring, spent most of it lying around the house, contemplating ways to get rich quicker. All that happened was that his golf game went to pot. But last week Tony finally staggered home $20,000 to the good in New York's Thunderbird Classic and made a solemn resolution. From now on, when Lema hears that Arnie Palmer or Jack Nicklaus is taking a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: No Substitute for Swinging | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

Penalty of Size. Instead of leading the industry, the company's cautious managers were slow in adjusting to some of the great marketing and technological changes that have vastly altered the steel business over the past decade. Such companies as Inland were quicker to react to the fact that the great postwar and post-Korea steel shortage ended in 1957, and they stepped up their selling drives. While U.S. Steel continued to concentrate on the heavier and less profitable grades of steel, such specialists as Armco and Youngstown marketed more and more of the lighter and flat-rolled steels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Thunder in Pittsburgh | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

Learning so relentlessly nonphonetic a language as English will never become effortless, and Words in Color may be overrated by some of its spectacular early successes. Yet for its nappy discovery that symbolic color sticks in an illiterate's brain quicker than a shape, and its basic expansion of the alphabet (from 26 letters to 47 colors) to match the language's sounds, it gives promise of turning into an educational hit (light blue, pink, magenta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching: Reading by Rainbow | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

...Patterson can work his way up the heavyweight ladder, defeat Clay, and then quietly preach the Urban League doctrine from the throne. Or, we might wish for the good old days when fighters fought, kept their social and religious convictions to themselves, and left the civil rights movement for quicker minds to deal with...

Author: By Peter R. Kann, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/23/1964 | See Source »

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