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With homosexuality in Britain a matter of government concern and wide-open public discussion (TIME, Dec. 16). the once-taboo subject got a whirl in last week's British Medical Journal. First difficulty, reported a three-man research team which had worked at Bristol Mental Hospitals, is to find out just what a homosexual is. So the Bristol psychiatrists went to nearby prisons, got 64 volunteer subjects, aged 20 to 61, doing time for unnatural acts. The researchers exploded a lot of widespread fallacies: CJ Even among prison cases, homosexuality is no all-or-nothing quality. Only nine...
Leaps to Rock. After attending a matinee of West Side Story, the whole company paid an onstage visit to the cast, soon began communicating in a spontaneous contest of dance leaps and turns. When the Russians outleaped and outturned them, the West Siders took refuge in a whirl of rock 'n' roll. To their astonishment, the Muscovites went right into rock 'n' roll too. The Russians also went downtown to Michael Herman's Folk Dance House, studiously followed a caller through the intricacies of such American classics as Kentucky Mountain Running Set, Paw Paw Patch...
Always seeking harmony, man sees the universe-for a few brief moments-as a pleasingly simple machine. Then curiosity about the nature of matter gets the better of him. Democritus conceived matter as only a whirl of tiny, indivisible units called atoms. Plato disagreed, saw it as a symmetrical expression of mathematical relations between five basic structures. Then came the theory of light radiating in continuous waves. German Physicist Max Planck overturned that in 1900; he said energy comes in discontinuous particles-or quanta-and Einstein followed him with the idea that light can be thought of as both particle...
...back to school to all his contemporaries. "Coming to the university," says he, "was the most intelligent thing I ever did in my life. I am not compelled as are so many of my contemporaries to kill time playing darts and dominoes in the local pub. I have the whirl and surge and generosity of youth around me, and they've taught me again to hope...
...immaculate, da ta") in a café kitchen, Dishwasher Bert Lahr learned, that he had won an Irish Sweepstakes fortune. At last, he and his wife (Margaret Hamilton) could realize a great dream, "the one thing we both want most-a divorce." Instead, though, Lothario Lahr settled for a whirl at the posh Murmuring Sands Hotel and the charms of a predatory female who invites him skindiving. "You do snorkel?" she asked. "Oh, fluently," replied Lahr with outrageous, beady-eyed insouciance, and in a trice he has filled out a preposterous, knee-length bathing suit. With a meddling, mixed-metaphored...