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...want to bear children fail to conceive, many of them because of defects in their fallopian tubes. In England last week there was a flurry of optimism about a successful treatment for some of these would-be mothers. A respected, pioneering obstetrician-gynecologist reported that in three cases a ripe egg cell had been removed from a wife and fertilized in a laboratory by sperm from her husband; then the resulting conceptus had been implanted in the wife's womb and she had given birth to a normal child. The three babies thus conceived are now from twelve...
Normally a woman of childbearing age ovulates once every lunar month, an average of 14 days before the expected onset of menstruation. Her ovaries then expel one or more egg cells, ripe for fertilization. An individual egg (ovum) is drawn into the fallopian tube (oviduct) to begin a four-day journey toward the uterus. After intercourse, the husband's spermatozoa swim upstream through the uterus into the fallopian tubes, and if one sperm succeeds in penetrating an ovum, conception has occurred. The conceptus, repeatedly doubling the number of its cells, enters the uterus and imbeds itself in the lining...
Common causes of infertility are blockage or surgical removal of the oviducts so that the egg cannot meet the sperm. Bevis and several other investigators on both sides of the Atlantic reasoned that this roadblock might be bypassed if: 1) ripe ova were removed through a small surgical incision in the abdomen, 2) one was fertilized by the husband's sperm (obtained by masturbation), 3) the conceptus was kept alive and subdividing in glassware for a few days, and finally 4) it was implanted in the wife's uterus. Bevis succeeded in keeping the conceptus alive in what...
Still, the combination seems curious. Citroën is obviously ripe for merger. The company in 1972 earned only a pathetic $6.3 million profit on $2 billion sales; last year it nearly doubled its earnings, but it recently announced that it expects a loss in 1974. The company has been hit hard by credit restrictions and high fuel costs, and its managers are more adept at engineering than at marketing. If the left had won the French presidential elections in May, Citroën would almost certainly have been a prime candidate for nationalization...
...Flying was her instinctive response to the strain-a desperate, rambling attempt at self-definition. The result is a confused rag bag of reportage, memories and confession. She describes her Irish Catholic childhood in St. Paul-her father's desertion of his wife and three daughters, the "ripe eroticism" of her convent-school days. She analyzes her intellectual and artistic development, her marriage and, above all, again and again in paralyzing detail, the sexual relationships with women that began when she was at college and still dominate her life...