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...Cowles thinks not. Last year, while dissecting Brewer's blackbirds (Euphagus cyanocephalus) he discovered that their testes moved downward and backward during the warm spring breeding season. In the new position they were "enveloped between the two dorsal folds of the abdominal air sacs." Cooled by circulating air, they could function properly, though the general body temperature might be much too high for them...
...also foresees a squad that is "solid all the way down," with few standouts in the higher slots. Where most teams are evenly graded from the top men downward, the Crimson lacks exceptional players and is more evenly matched right through the team. "In this situation," Barnaby says, "we won't be in a position to mash anyone, but we're at the mercy of a well-graded squad...
These agonists are the personifications of the human societies we call civilizations, in their upward impulse from the pit of primitive times. Downward, beyond the extreme range of vision, plunges a depth measured by 300,000 unenlightened years -the time required for the lowest climber to reach, from primitive to civilized man, the lowest visible ledge. The others have been climbing, at one stage or another, for the 6,000 years of discernible history...
...Tories strained to take it out on Socialism. In the House of Commons Winston Churchill flashed some of his old form and fire: "The brute fact is that Socialism means mismanagement ... incompetence. . . . Let us hope the nation will realize from this flagrant example the downward stairway upon which they are now thrust and down which they have descended only the first few steps...
...larder are running out. It is time for Congress to begin to plan concretely, to prepare for useful public spending, for the stimulation of private investment, for increased mobility in the labor market, for all those rationalizing tactics in fiscal and tax areas which will prevent the sickening spiral downward into the dumps of joblessness and despair. It's getting very late...