Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...massive experiment conducted by Adolf Butenandt, 56, who was co-winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (for isolating the male sex hormone, androsterone), a research team at Munich's Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry imported 1,000,000 silkworm cocoons from Italy and Japan, opened them up with razor blades, separated the pupae of 310,000 females from the males. What followed, in the words of one researcher, was "a mass slaughter, and not for the fainthearted." Each tiny pupa was disemboweled, the scent glands carefully cut out. Male moths served as lab assistants: when they were...
...pests in themselves, but their larvae are-e.g., the larvae of the gypsy moth destroy thousands of trees every year. Butenandt's discovery opens the way to a new attack on such pests. Insecticides kill off useful insects along with the pests. But if the sex attractant for one particular species can be isolated and synthesized, its males can be attracted, trapped, and killed without harming useful insects...
...males will come flocking," said a Munich researcher. "Females, of course, will continue to lay their eggs, but they will be unfertilized. The main advantage over DDT is that no resistant strains are likely to emerge. Whoever heard of a male animal becoming immune to sex...
...Cassandra, watched 1½ TV performances of a U.S. pianist visiting England in 1956, then upquilled. "This deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother-love," fumed Connor of Wladziu Valentino Liberace. "He is the summit of sex-the pinnacle of Masculine, Feminine and Neuter. Everything that He, She or It can ever want...
...soda fountain, it is better for today's model to have been found at the Actors' Studio. Where yesterday's glamour girl was expected to bathe in goat's milk, today's must dig Dostoevsky, or at least say she does. The sex goddess is a foreigner now-named Brigitte or Sophia-and Hollywood women seem to come in somewhat subtler shapes. And, at one time or another, they must all wear blue jeans. But under the blue jeans they...