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What makes a man manly or a woman womanly-or vice versa? Many homosexuals are living proof that physical organs alone are not decisive. Freud and his followers argued that the sexual personality was often determined by seemingly trivial incidents in childhood. When the so-called "sexual hormones" (testosterone in men, estradiol in women) were discovered, many physicians decided that hormones must be the agents which determine sexual behavior. In recent years, tens of thousands of effeminate males and masculine females have been given shots of one or the other...
...Trivial Items," It was an impressive performance. Iowa's Hickenlooper looked a little sheepish. He pulled a statement from his pocket and read it. It was not the activities of AEC's zealous and loyal helpers to which he objected but Lilienthal's administrative policies. He ended: "At this time I am not prepared to present my case in an orderly fashion. But I will in a few days...
...first round had gone to Lilienthal. From the White House he got a reassuring pat. Said Harry Truman: "I deplore the fact that relatively trivial items have been blown up to proportions that threaten the integrity of the program. It is time people stopped getting hysterical when the word atom is mentioned . . . I have entire confidence in Mr. Lilienthal...
Some things they wanted to know, Congressmen still felt, were not "relatively trivial." Congress' interest was based on a legitimate preoccupation with how more than $1 billion a year was going to be spent by an agency that was in some respects a law unto itself. Congressmen were baffled by a science too abstruse for them to comprehend. They were baffled by the need for national security on the one hand, the obvious necessity for un-hobbled scientific inquiry on the other. Beyond everything else, they were baffled by the problem of fitting absolute Government control of atomic power...
...page report to Governor Paul A. Dever, the commission said that there was no "just cause" for Dr. Van Waters' removal, and that nine of the 27 charges against her were "trivial" and "captious...