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Albizu's arrogance was gone. Now 60, he suffers from tuberculosis and hallucinations; he charged recently that he was being bombarded with "electronic rays" in his cell. Last week when defense lawyers were given ten days to appeal, Albizu smiled humbly at the judge, said only, "Gracias, gracias...
...last week's meeting also heard that a few of their colleagues had all but solved one of the biggest problems in artificial insemination: the preservation of sperm over long periods. Frozen in a solution of glycerin (which acts as a cushion, preventing ice crystals from destroying cell life), spermatozoa from rabbits and poultry have already been preserved for as long as 33 days. "We have ... to contemplate," said Dr. A. S. Parkes of London's National Institute for Medical Research, "the possibility of an animal begetting progeny long after its death . . . We have also to realize that...
Informed that she would have to go home, even though she had turned 21 in June, Claire became hysterical, punched a policeman in the nose, and landed in a cell of Milan's medieval San Vittore prison...
...Only my suit and shoes were left to me when I was shoved into a 6 ft. by 9 ft. cell . . . The next ten days I was not allowed to wash, and my menu comprised black bread and water three times a day. The worst of it, however, was the endless routine, repeated every six minutes, of the steel peephole being opened and clanged shut. Finally, I was again cleaned up and shaved and led before the chief of the secret police. I was apparently ready to be hopped up and groomed for my trial...
...stress. Dr. George W. Thorn (TIME, May 21) acted on the theory that in a normal, healthy reaction to physical or emotional stress the adrenal cortex is stimulated. It then puts out more hormones, which (among other effects) cut down the number of eosinophils (a type of white cell) circulating in the blood. Thus a series of before & after eosinophil counts might show whether a man's reaction to stress is normal...