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...practicing Freud and D. H. Lawrence, and letting their willing women keep house and hold jobs. In Harper's Magazine this month, Mildred Edie Brady calls the Miller devotees "the new cult of sex and anarchy"; their bible, says she, is a book by Wilhelm Reich entitled Function of the Orgasm (says Henry Miller, who claims no responsibility for the cult: "A boring, deadly book"). When they can find the time, most of the cultists paint, whether they...
...gimmick in high-temperature operation. The "spermatogenic" cells, which produce the male sperms, will not tolerate as much heat as the somatic (body) cells. When sperm cells get too hot, they stop working, causing sterility. Even the normal temperature of the blood is often too high for them to function...
...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...
Pepper attacked the government for repudiating the United Nations with its plans for Greece and Turkey. "The United States should take the lead in saving the U. N. and help it function as it was intended. The U.N. can handle the affair, but only if we are willing," Pepper declared...
...steel wedges, spent the better part of five days methodically hacking the tops off the hallowed stairways and replacing them with special non-skid material. This cement material may eventually wear down, but it will never become slippery. The men were employed by a construction company whose sole function is the replacing of dangerous stairways with non-skid treads...