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...doctor's office, under local anesthesia. The surgeon makes a small incision in one side of the scrotum and pulls out a length of the vas deferens, the tube through which spermatozoa pass from the testis on the way to the urethra. He cuts out about half an inch of the tube and ties off both ends, and repeats the operation on the other side. It can all be done in about 15 minutes, for an average fee of $75. The man can go back to work the next day, and resume sexual relations in a week...
...Inching Along. But Cleveland Coach Blanton Collier is an optimist, too. All he had to do was stop Baltimore Quarterback Johnny Unitas, the N.F.L.'s Player of the Year, who completed 51.8% of his passes this season. He even thought he knew a way. Noting that most teams played their defensive backs deeper than normal against Baltimore, conceding short passes in hopes of defusing Unitas's bombs, Collier decided to take the opposite tack-position his halfbacks a step shorter than usual, crowd the Colts' receivers, make them commit themselves sooner. In the line, he made another...
...preposterous. Sharing the racks with Rubens are sexy sphinxes and snake-draped nude dancers of Max Klinger and Franz von Stuck, whose fancy for the Wagnerian concept of total art led them to stud their frames with marble, onyx and semiprecious lapidary and to incise their names in five-inch letters. Among nearly 2,000 lesser art works are monumental glorifications of the autobahns, tiers of titillating, bulky Brünnhildes in the buff, and pleasant vistas of Berchtesgaden. One canvas, called Judgment of Paris, shows three hefty maidens placidly awaiting the award of the golden apple from Paris...
With the new Haystack antenna that can project a narrow beam of 8,000-megacycle, 1.5-inch microwaves that behave just like light. Dr. Shapiro plans to follow the planet Venus around its orbit, accurately measuring the time that the microwaves take to reach their target and bounce back. While Venus is well away from the sun, that time can be translated into the planet's calculated distance on its well-known orbit. But as Venus begins to swing behind the sun, the microwaves will pass through the strongest part of the sun's gravitational field. If Einstein...
Regular snow tires (which no longer whine) increase traction on snow-covered roads by 50%, but the scores of tiny metallic studs-protruding about one-sixteenth of an inch from the tread -increase the new tires traction on ice by at least 180% and reduce braking distance by 70%. Although many states have long-standing regulations against permanent metallic devices on tires, many others have amended their laws to permit the studs, which are designed to wear down at the same rate as the tread so as to minimize road damage. New York has just become one of a growing...