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...that cervical secretions are hostile to spermatozoa. This can be established by a simple smear test. If the secretion is normally receptive, it dries in a marked, fernlike pattern; if it is hostile, the pattern is different or absent. And in such cases, doses of a female hormone may fix things...
Boomerang. In Woonsocket, R.I., after ordering city police to enforce a strict no-fix'' policy on motor-vehicle viola tions. Mayor Kevin Coleman learned who had received parking tickets as a result...
...patrolman named Louis Brackman, told him he wanted to buy police protection for a brothel he planned to open. In a series of tape-recorded meetings, Richter offered Patrolman Brackman $1,000 for himself and $2,000 for the bigwig in the police department who could make the fix. But after several meetings, Brackman finally reported the attempted bribe, and police swooped down on Richter's apartment and arrested him. Screamed the States: ARREST SPECIAL...
...lure in people, the Smiths spot slot machines ( 3? to $1) strategically, fix them so that they pay out 97% of what is put into them. By thus keeping the house take low on their 800 slots, they build up customers' confidence for bigger bets-at eleven crap tables (where the house has a mathematical edge of 1.4%), 29 blackjack tables (2½%), nine roulette wheels (5.2%) and the horses. Winners are always paid off in silver dollars (except for big games). The Smiths have found that a pocketful of silver dollars is a temptation to keep on gambling...
...hopes that, by guaranteeing $10,000-a-year income and a rent-free house, he can lure a full-time doctor to Ryderwood. Kem has no fears that the oldtimers' lives will be dull: he is leaving the interiors of the houses alone, so that the buyers can fix them up to their own taste. He also hopes to lease a factory building to some business to provide part-time employment, for those who want...