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...officers' garb gave me all he had on the jaw. Then I was dragged to the patrol car, handcuffed between two officers. I was struck again by this man not in uniform, who leaned through a window to hit me. My wife and I were put in a cell and our little girl left on the outside...
...Cities & Cells. To Planner Saarinen a city is an organism which grows and flourishes or sickens and withers like a plant, according to profound natural laws and the conditions of its environment. Healthiest and most perfectly formed cities, Saarinen believes, were those of the Middle Ages, when the relative simplicity of social life made it possible for architects to build them as complete units. The medieval town, like France's Carcassonne and Holland's Naarden (see cut), resembled the organic cell of animal and plant life, its spired cathedral forming a spiritual nucleus for its web of radiating...
Since the Middle Ages, the urban cell has grown out of all recognition. Its neat structure has become disorganized, its central nucleus diseased with slums, its circulation impeded by industrial growths and clotted traffic. "When a city grows compact, as when a forest grows compact," says Saarinen, "it withers...
Near the feathery upper end of the tubes, one sperm cell may be lucky enough to merge with an ovum or egg cell which has been discharged from the nearby ovaries. After this fortunate meeting, the fertilized egg then proceeds back through the tube into the uterus, and burrows into the uterine lining: baby is on its way. This process may be prevented by a number of disorders which occur about as often in husbands as in wives. Therefore Dr. Hamblen urges that men be examined as routinely as women...
...Camelots du Roi (King's Henchmen). For three days the Camelots hurled jeers and inkpots at the police. Then dapper Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe appeared in his yellow gloves, backed by several hundred gendarmes and three fire engines. Daudet yielded and was ensconced in a comfortable cell in the Prison de la Sante, where he was permitted meals prepared by Mme. Daudet...