Are We Becoming Obsolete A Vivid Nature Tale From 1960s Press
An AP dispatch from London discusses male obsolescence fears sparked by a Dutch scientist A Stolk and his Nature magazine article on pathological parthenogenesis in viviparous toothcarps. It explains female toothcarps giving birth without males and notes the concept may foreshadow human implications, with a caveat about the gap to real evolution.
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London
A. Stolk
Histological Laboratory
Free University
Amsterdam
Stolk
Nature
Heckel
Hoferi Plehn-Mulsow
Mother Nature
Venus Sculpture Dispute Sparks Italian Art Feud
Florence experts spar over the nude Venus in the Pitti Palace garden. Matteo Marangoni cites Michelangelo likeness. Ulrich Middledorf argues Pierino da Vinci created it, nudging debate on whether the piece is by Michelangelo or his kin. The State Art Commission weighs in without resolution.
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Florence
Italy
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Venus
Pitti Palace
Matteo Marangoni
Ulrich Middledorf
SI Germanic Institute For Study of Art
Middledorf
Pierino da Vinci
Leonardo
Pierino
State Art Commission
Five Measures Await Labor Bill Action
Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson announced five major bills will be brought up for action once the pending labor measure ends. The items include Alaska statehood, extended taxes, a civilian space agency, sharing atomic secrets, and waterway projects, with additional annual appropriations also on the Senate agenda.
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Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Johnson
Statehood
Alaska
Senate
House Atomic Committee
Eisenhower
Friday the 13th Brings 13th Child to Deshner Family
In Great Falls Montana Columbus Hospital reports Mrs Wilmer Deshner gave birth on Friday night to a boy, their 13th child, bringing the family total to six boys and six girls. The father works as a smelter plant watchman.
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Great Falls
Mont
Wilmer Deshner
Columbus Hospital
Deshner
Farmers Helpless to Farm Property Tax
Washington report notes farm property taxes are a fixed cost of production with little farmers can do except pay. Taxes on farm real estate rose to a record 1.25 billion in 1967, with real estate taxes climbing 72 percent since 1947–49 and averaging about 5 percent annually. Personal property taxes also rose while farmer income and land value growth lagged.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Frederick D. Stocker
Farm Economics Research Division
Goldwater Credits Australian Debate Etiquette Shift
Senator Barry Goldwater commends Australian lawmakers for adopting a new code of debate that bans personal insults. He cites the rule preventing members from calling each other terms such as assassin, cad, blood-drinker, sewer rat, or ignoramus as a model for temperate discourse among senators.
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Washington
J Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Goldwater
House of Representatives
Montreal
Kuwait Surcharge Aids Algerian Rebels Fight French
AP report says Kuwait moviegoers pay a surcharge to aid Algerian National Liberation Front efforts against France. Oil-rich Persian Gulf donations have reached 160000 dollars, aiding the rebel cause.
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Cairo
Kuwait
Algeria
Algerian National Liberation Front
Persia Gulf
Way To Beat Recession By Harvesting Wheat
Dallas La Bonte of Coldwater Kansas closed his used car lot in Fairview and moved his family to Kansas to harvest wheat. He bought a new combine and grain trucks and plans to work into August, hoping to reopen the car lot and prepare children for school.
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Coldwater
Kan
Dallas
la Bonte
Fairview
Mont
Bill Maslowskis
Gypsy
Kansas
Oklahoma
Canadian universities lack U.S. history instruction say professor
Dr. Wallace D. Farnham of the University of Alberta laments Canadawide U.S. history teaching with only two full-time instructors found. He cites Tucson Arizona as the origin of the University of Arizona founded in 1885 and notes its campus size at one hundred acres.
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Edmonton
Alta
U. S
Wallace D. Farnham
University of Alberta
Canada
U.S
Tucson
Ariz
University of Arizona
Bird Catchers Freely Gather in Delhi Mosque Ceremony
In New Delhi Indians gain money by capturing birds and releasing them as part of an ancient religious rite. Bird catchers bring caged birds to a mosque where crowds pay one rupee and twenty one cents for each bird freed. Some birds, mainly parrots, are trained like homing pigeons and reused.
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New Delhi
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