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Senator Margaret Smith has long made me ashamed of my sex, as have many of her sisters in Washington and the public eye. They seem to pattern themselves after Mme. Defarge. Women were supposed to improve the world when we got the vote, but we seem to be more bloodthirsty than men . . . not one woman now in Congress has poured oil on the troubled waters of the world storm or denounced our foreign policy of expediency...
...nerve cells. This cannot be true, says Dr. Gerard, because animals whose brains have been chilled to stop all electrical activity can still remember. He believes that the brain has some "static" method of storing memories. Perhaps changes in the synapses (nerve endings) between the neurons build up a pattern of information. Then, when the brain wants a bit of information, it may "scan" the synapses electrically and extract the knowledge it needs...
...Self-Propelled Sprinkler. A lawn sprinkler that propels itself over any prearranged course at the rate of 17 feet an hour will soon be marketed by the Reel Sprinkler Co. of Toledo. With the hose laid out in any pattern on the lawn, the Reel Sprinkler (a rotating sprinkler at-'tached to a hose reel on wheels) moves forward under water pressure, winding up the hose as it goes, then shuts off automatically. Price...
...University of Missouri to admit him to its law school on the ground that he could not find equal facilities anywhere else in the state. Since then. Negroes have found themselves on scores of once forbidden campuses. In almost every case, their experiences have fallen into a sort of pattern. There have been dire predictions of trouble and periods of tension. But the trouble has rarely materialized, and the tension has soon melted away...
...hold Sunday-evening record recitals. But he is no relaxed amateur. He is a relentless musicologist, and his soirees are an exacting ritual. He plans a carefully balanced program and gathers material for commentary. Guests arrive on the stroke of 8 and are seated in a hieratic U pattern with the high-fidelity player and the master's chair at the open end of the U. All talk is hushed as Kinsey picks up the first record and announces why he thinks it worth playing. The ladies may knit with muted needles, but there is not another sound until...