Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Planning East Suicide. Still, for all its drawbacks, Germany looks-and is-a lot better than a few years ago. Ironically, the Wall−which Ulbricht calls the "antifascist defense shield"−made the difference. Before the Wall went up in 1961, East Germany's economy was on the ropes, as many of the brightest workers, scientists and technocrats joined the exodus of 3,000,000 East Germans who voted with their feet and went Westward. Since then, 24,500 East Germans have managed to escape (137 were killed in the attempt), but most people have accepted the idea...
...flick, a comedy called The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz, calls for the heroine to play a swinging East German lady decathlon champ who decides to take it on the lam from that draggy country. Zoom!-she pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall. To get in shape for the part, Actress Elke Sommer, 25, has been tearing around the U.C.L.A. athletic field. "I consider myself very athletic," said Elke, who certainly did look in nice form as she took the low hurdles. For the Wall-vaulting sequence, though, the studio will use a stuntman made up to look like Elke...
...tube. If, en route, it meets a fresh and viable sperm, conception occurs, and the fertilized egg proceeds to the uterus for implantation in its wall and development into a baby. Soon after the egg is released, the automatic hormone mechanism sends another chemical messenger to the ovaries, telling them not to release any more ripe eggs-to guard against multiple or superimposed pregnancies. If there has been no fertilization, the uterus again gets ready to slough off its lining, and the cycle is repeated...
Other contraceptive techniques are farther off-but not beyond possibility. How about a drug that works the way an IUD apparently does, speeding ova through the Fallopian tubes so that they cannot be fertilized, or preventing the implantation of fertilized ova in the uterine wall? Searle's Dr. Thomas P. Carney is searching for a chemical that will serve to activate the specific muscles involved. In his research with infertile women, St. Louis' Dr. William H. Masters noticed that some had cervical mu cus so hostile to sperm that it killed them almost on contact. In normal women...
With a sigh of relief, moneymen from Wall Street to Main Street heard last week that President Johnson had appointed William McChesney Martin, 60, to his fifth four-year term as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. "This bank is delighted," said a Chase Manhattan senior vice president. So was First National City, whose president, George S. Moore, said of Martin: "This is a time when his experience is needed." No less enthusiastic were foreign bankers, who also see Martin as a staunch defender of the sound dollar that is so necessary to their economic wellbeing...