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...arguments are overwhelmingly in favor of home rule. What killed it during the last session and may smother it again this year is public indifference. A few national organizations--the AFL-CIO, ADA, and the League of Women Voters--lobbied for home rule, but not vigorously. Except for the NAACP, the national Negro organizations did not exert grass-roots pressure...
...research with infertile women, St. Louis' Dr. William H. Masters noticed that some had cervical mu cus so hostile to sperm that it killed them almost on contact. In normal women, during their "safe" periods, the mucus is so sticky and viscous that it tends to smother spermatozoa. So two lines of research are being followed: 1) to keep a woman's cervical mucus viscous enough to block sperm, and 2) to identify the chemical in Dr. Masters' infertile patients and then use it as a contraceptive...
...mate. Yet as the reels went by, the heroine changed slowly from a standard figure of fun to a unique and even sinister individual: a wounded and frightened young woman who wanted love but settled for power?with a husband she could dominate and a baby she could smother-mother. As Georgy, Lynn cunningly combined emotional empathy and ironical detachment. Says Sidney Lumet, who directed The Dead'y Affair, in which Lynn played a small role: "She can editorialize on a character without interrupting her portrayal of it." Acuity and control of this order, rare in one so young, intimate...
...himself as another Hen, what he really wanted was to remain a part of the system. Finally, he realizes that before he can assert his autonomy, he must relinquish the whole institutional Henhouse world and reject the paternalistic hand of psychiatry, which first helped him but now threatens to smother him. Y's journey has taken him from neurotic dependency and rebellion to a point where he can think...
...SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY HOUR (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). For an hour of togetherness, Jack Benny and George Burns join with the Brothers in an attempt to smother Nielsen's No. 1 Bonanza...