Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NOTHING BUT THE BEST. A mordantly funny variation on Room at the Top, this British comedy studies a climber (Alan Bates) who hires an upper-crust crumb to teach him the niceties of snobbery...
...infant before conception. But how to separate sperm that produce female offspring from those that produce males? Various methods, such as the use of electric fields or care ful temperature control, produced only minimal results. Then, in India, Zoologist Bhairab Chandra Bhattacharya noticed that the upper portion of a sperm sample tended to breed more bulls; the lower portion gave more cows. Apparently this was because the sperm that produce female offspring are heavier than those that produce males and sank to the bottom of the solution...
...rabbit sperm with egg yolk and glycol, and stored the solution for twelve hours in a refrigerator at slightly above the freezing point to keep the sperm from swimming and allow them to separate by sedimentation. Then he used the sample to inseminate 176 rabbits. Those that got the upper portion produced 77.4% male offspring, while those impregnated with the lower portion produced 72% females. The middle portion gave a near-normal result: 55% males and 45% females. A control group of 182 rabbits inseminated with unsedimented sperm produced the standard fifty-fifty percentage of males and females...
...Upper Levitt. The incredible demand for space has permitted fly-by-night entrepreneurs to debase Europe's reputation for quality craftsmanship. Many new houses and apartments have cracker-thin walls, minimum soundproofing, unpainted interiors. On a recent tour of Europe, 20 top U.S. construction experts were shocked by the high prices and lack of standards. Said Tacoma's Daniel Brown, research director of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association: "There's no comparing quality here with...
Only the Beginning. In a unanimous gesture almost without parallel in postwar Germany, the Bundestag last week passed a bill that does not abolish investigative arrest but will certainly curb its abuses. The bill now goes to the Bundesrat (upper house), where it is certain to be quickly approved. Once the new law is in effect, before a judge may permit a suspect to be jailed the prosecutor must submit concrete factual evidence that the suspect intends to flee or tamper with testimony. A suspect will be guaranteed the right to refuse to testify against himself, the opportunity to refute...