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...abortions. Then, health officials believe that 15 municipal hospitals, plus about 40 voluntary (private but nonprofit) hospitals will be able to handle the cases of local residents. They have no clear idea what will happen to women who flock in from Connecticut and New Jersey-and probably much farther afield -where a legal abortion is still virtually unobtainable...
Clark, Georgia Legislator Julian Bond, Radical Columnist I.F. Stone, and Senators Muskie and Kennedy. Most speakers have pointedly avoided the usual traces of condescension and easy platitude. Subjects have ranged afield. Planned Parenthood Crusader Alan Guttmacher urged Smith graduates to practice fertility control; at Vassar, where most graduates' caps were bedecked with peace symbols, Writer Gloria Steinem spoke on Women's Liberation. But the dominant themes were war and the young...
...first satellite (see story, page 47). At home and abroad, the Russian military has become an increasingly important factor. In foreign policy, the Soviets are relying ever more on military presence and displays of armed might to tighten their control over East Europe or to influence uncommitted countries farther afield. Within Russia, the military's immense influence has been greatly enhanced by the threat of war with China and the Czechoslovak invasion. The importance of the military was only underscored when Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev flew to Minsk recently for the massive Dvina maneuvers, and stood...
Having dispatched the business end of this review. I am left to add the flourishes. Before I rush too far afield, however, let me tell you a little about the exhibit. The photographs were taken in Birmingham, England by Janct Mendelsohn and Richard Rodgers in 1968. Both Mendelsohn and Rodgers now teach at the Carpenter Center...
...salesgirls put on some of their sales items for a picture. "My God," she shrieked, "I've got so much on sale-she'd fall right through the floor. I'm a regular Filene's Basement," to name another good place for bargains, if you feel like traveling father afield, and a nice white fur coat with curly stuff all over it is reduced from...