Navy Rapped For Downed Texas Tower
A Senate report criticizes the Navy and the Texas Tower designers after the 1961 collapse near the New Jersey coast that killed 28. It faults inadequate design criteria and the joint indecision of Navy and Air Force, noting Air Force personnel were aboard when the tower fell.
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Navy
Texas Tower
Washington
Senate
Air Force
Banks
Stewart Air Force Base
N.Y
John Stennis
D-Miss
Bureau of Yards and Docks
Stennis
Custom Picture Framing Service at Carrell Supply Co
Carrell Supply Co offers custom picture framing service at 1104 Cano Street with contact EL 3 2747. The shop emphasizes tailored mats mounts and glass options.
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Carrell Supply Co
St. EL
Steroid drug halts sperm development and affects female fertility
Sterling-Winthrop Laboratories developed a chemical that temporarily sterilizes males by stopping sperm development. The drug has been tried and prescribed, with costs expected to fall. When women stop contraception pills, their fertility reportedly rises sharply.
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Sterling-Winthrop Laboratories
Sex Of Baby Made To Order
Editor notes on life beginnings discuss progress in genetics and the idea of selecting traits. The piece hints at scientists forecasting a future where defective births may be eliminated and a better breed could be established, suggesting moral and scientific debates.
Sperm Mirrors Birth Secrets and Sex Determination
AP Science writer outlines how sperm size may hint at a boy or girl outcome, and describes emerging trials in birth control and fertility. Dr. Landrum Shettles explains the X and Y chromosome roles while noting that about 500 million sperm compete to fertilize the egg.
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Landrum B. Shettles
Columbia University
Report cites blame for failed hurricane damaged tower
Stennis and a 41 page document fault civilian and military roles in a doomed tower project. The structure was battered by hurricanes twice and damaged in June 1957 during tow to the Atlantic site, with lawmakers noting a hodgepodge of errors and accountability.
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Stennis
Atlantic
Distinct Head Shapes in Sperm Study Sparks Debate
The passage notes two sperm head types, smaller round versus larger elongated, with researchers reexamining the difference. It suggests that proving male versus female bearing sperm requires selective analysis or experiments.
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