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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extracted eggs and the husband's sperm ? usually obtained by masturbation ? are kept at the right temperature and pressure, free of contamination and in an appropriate culture medium (salts, nutrients and sometimes blood serum), fertilization will not occur. Explains the University of Pennsylvania's Benjamin G. Brackett: "You don't want the eggs to suspect they are out of the body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Test-Tube Baby | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...business interests. The prospect does not worry Arctic Gas officials. They emphasize that Canadian firms, having found large deposits of natural gas in the Mackenzie River delta, would not only help to finance the pipeline but also use it to export surplus gas to the U.S. Adds William Brackett, the consortium's American vice chairman: "We've been shipping through the St. Lawrence Seaway for years without any friction between the nations. Besides, if Canada were to close the pipeline for some reason, the U.S. could retaliate easily. Almost all of western Canada's oil goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESOURCES: The Alaskan Gas Rush | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...route to its third consecutive victory of the season, Radcliffe swept all six single matches. The squad's only setback of the afternoon came in the second doubles match as Debby Klonsky and Rhonda Williams bowed to Endicott's Lisa Finck and Sue Brackett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Tennis Powerhouse Rolls On; Endicott Wins Only One Match of Nine | 10/11/1974 | See Source »

...group, stretch and bask, albeit sheepishly, in the Wodehouse prose. In self-justification they cite his storytelling powers. Faced with an important question like "Who was Legs Mortimer?" only Wodehouse could reply, "That was precisely what Angus McTavish wanted to know when he saw him blowing kisses at Evangeline Brackett from the clubhouse canteen," thereby ensuring a rapt and docile audience. Gloom is kept down to the essential minimum and balanced by modest quantities of sex and violence, as in The Salvation of George Mackintosh, in which the beautiful Celia attempts to murder him (George) with, of all things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Clubmen at Play | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

Screenplay by LEIGH BRACKETT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Curious Spectacle | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

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