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...born with. The majority of congenital defects, it is currently believed, come when something goes wrong in the womb-typically, cataracts in a child resulting from the fact that the mother had German measles (TIME, Aug. 1, 1960). The rest are hereditary, dating from the instant that a sperm and an ovum, one or both defective, join to make a defective cell. In the subdividing process that starts at once, every newly created cell carries in its genes the defect, ready to misguide the fetus toward abnormal development-malformation, for example, or mental retardation...
...fresh water, where they can be fattened like hogs, ocean salmon come to fresh-water streams only to lay their eggs. When the fingerlings are three inches long, they take off for the sea, where they get most of their growth. They come home to deposit their eggs and sperm with unerring accuracy in the stream where they were hatched...
...Shot a special emergency bill to the President authorizing the General Services Administration to sell 2,000,000 Ibs. of goosefeathers and down (used in sleeping bags, flight jackets, survival suits), which it has been hoarding since 1947 (along with iodine, opium, castor oil, sperm oil, diamonds, sapphires, rubies, instruments, missiles, aluminum, tin, zinc, lead, nickel, bismuth and platinum). When Delaware's Senator John Williams asked how many feathers the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization had collected, he was told that the information was classified...
...completely planned fatherhood, especially for couples "who are afflicted with sterility or a dubious genetic endowment." He brushed aside administrative difficulties by arguing that "dictation, whether by politicians, physicians or geneticists, would tend to be self-defeating." Dr. Muller was confident that, freezing would not damage sperm. But in one sketchily reported trial of frozen sperm, among the first three babies was a girl so deformed that the mother refused to take her home, and she proved to be mentally defective also...
...None of Nocturnal was taped, but its sounds-chittering strings, night-wailing flutes-were far out enough to fire up any Varèse fan. Its chanted, fragmented lyrics were appropriately opaque: "You belong to the night. . . Bread and the wafer. . . I have lost my brother. . . Perfume and sperm...