Word: testes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Court of Session, listened to the argument of MacLennan's lawyer that the real essence of adultery is not how it is accomplished, but "the surrender of a woman's reproductive organs to another man." Commented Lord Wheatley: "Of course, it is not another man, but a test tube. She does not know who the man is. How can you have intercourse with only one person present?" In his preliminary ruling, the judge noted: "The idea that adultery might be committed bya woman alone in the privacy of her bedroom is one with which earlier jurists...
Lord Wheatley's ruling raised more questions than it settled. Father Paul Crane, a Roman Catholic spokesman, declared: "Human beings are not cattle to be bred by test tubes. Only a pagan world would treat them as such." Britain's popular press disagreed, argued that artificial insemination could bring comfort to women previously unable to conceive. Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, addressed the synod of the Convocation of Canterbury on the issue. Whether or not artificial insemination by donor was legally held to be a crime or not, he said, it was a sin in the eyes...
...antilabor views of Texas capital. In 1944 President Homer Rainey bluntly charged that one regent had demanded the heads of three facultymen because they had passed a scholastic rule that made his two sons ineligible for football. Another regent wanted to subject all teachers "to a patriotism test in the form of a questionnaire prepared by himself." As a result of such recalcitrance, the regents fired Rainey and put mild-mannered Zoologist T. S. Painter in his place. The American Association of University Professors censured the administration, and when famed Folklorist J. Frank Dobie went on protesting the Rainey firing...
...TOLL TV TEST is arousing little interest. Only one firm, Philadelphia Broadcasting Co., has applied to FCC to try system, and deadline for bids is March 1. FCC Chairman Doerfer says that single test is not enough, and pay TV may never get started unless businessmen are willing to invest more...
...tests will be given twice during 1958--in May and in October--but candidates taking the earlier test will be able to furnish scores to institutions in the early fall, when many medical schools begin selection of their next entering class...