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Jackie Kennedy likes to give her sea-loving husband things that are nautical and nice. So for Christmas she gave the President a fine piece of scrimshaw to add to his growing collection. It was a sperm whale's tooth. 9½ in. long and 4½ in. in diameter. "This wasn't just an ordinary whale's tooth,'' marveled a White House aide. "I guess it is supposed to be the biggest damn whale's tooth ever found...
...ovary can be free from adverse side effects. The absence of side effects for the short period of five years is an insufficient trial period. Some cancers have a latent period of 17-35 years following the irritating cause. It would be much safer to prevent the union of sperm and egg by the more conventional methods of contraception than to embark upon a widespread use of a pill, the full effects of which cannot yet be known. ROBERT RUGH New York City...
Artificial insemination won acceptance in the most positive approval yet by a major Protestant group. The report approved sperm donation both by husbands and by anonymous males, but suggested that physicians should be convinced of the "intelligence and emotional stability" of couples before recommending this "radical social procedure." The assembly also urged Presbyterians to work for uniform state laws that would protect the rights of test-tube babies. Its conclusion: "To discover in artificial insemination by an anonymous donor an act of adultery is certainly to give the word a meaning that it does not have in the New Testament...
Life on Pala has some remarkable features. A 30-night supply of contraceptives is delivered free with the mails once a month. Also there is insemination without intercourse; the best sperm goes into deep freeze so that top citizens may perform patriarchal prodigies of propagation. The normal nuttiness common to man in the demented Outside has been abolished by a program of adoption in which children rotate at will among a committee of 20 sets of parents...
...concentrated next on making silkworm eggs hatch into males. His most successful technique is to expose unfertilized eggs to X rays. This rough treatment kills the delicate female genetic material but does no apparent harm to other parts of the eggs. Then Dr. Astaurov fertilizes the eggs with male sperm that has not been irradiated. When the embryos develop, they are free of female influence; they all grow into high-yield male silkworms...