Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Money, No Sex. After the wedding Sol wanted to settle down in The Bronx ("There was a nice apartment there, with a doorman and everything, near Yankee Stadium"), but Yolaine picked the Century on Central Park West. ("I can remember when I was a child," Sol recalled wistfully, "and used to walk in the park and see the Century. That was class. I never expected to live there.") Yolaine's father, Murray Gross, who had made a fortune in brassieres, bought the furniture and wall-to-wall carpeting for their 4 ½room suite...
Three Israeli scientists last week said they have found a surefire method of determining a baby's sex before birth...
...method is based on the fact, demonstrated by Canadian scientists (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953), that a substance called sex chromatin can be detected in female but not in male cells. Dr. David Serr and Geneticists Leo Sachs and Mathilde Danon of Jerusalem's Rothschild-Hadassah University Hospital reasoned that cells in the amniotic fluid, the liquid inside the sac that encloses the fetus, could be analyzed to reveal the child's sex. To get small samples of the fluid, they inserted an extremely fine hypodermic needle through the vagina and into...
...cases the researchers were 100% right in determining the baby's sex before birth. So far they have confined their tests to women about to give birth, but they believe the test can be used after the twelfth week...
...this is the story of her glorious "redemption." This being the Royal Navy, the mutiny was a lower-deck affair, and the only officer-villain goes overside. It differs from the Caine mutiny in another merciful respect-the characters never get ashore into the arms of sea-fogged sex...