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When McGovern's speech was over, Humphrey and Muskie, Chisholm, Sanford and Jackson all clasped hands in a tableau of party unity; only Jackson looked, at first, dyspeptically suspicious. As McGovern knew, that array of unity could not conceal the deep fissures that divide the party. Actually, there are two Democratic parties now. One was in the convention hall, relishing its ascension to power. The other, beaten and bitter, was on the sidelines. It was not just Richard Daley, but included scores of Democratic Governors, Senators, Congressmen, state party chairmen, local officeholders?all the regulars unhorsed by the McGovern reforms...
...trees are sickening and dying. The pollution has also caused some frightening and hitherto unknown illnesses among humans. First came the so-called Minamata Disease, caused by a fertilizer plant dumping methyl mercury into a bay near the town of Minamata; it produced in its victims an appalling array of eye and brain damages. Another painful new disease called itai-itai (literally, ouch-ouch) derived from cadmium flowing into the Jintsu River from a mining and smelting factory. Its symptoms: a softening and finally a breaking of the bones. Then, two years ago, a wave of smog-associated complaints began...
...plots the coordinates of the biological and psychological axis of old age as againsts its cultural and economic axis. Her array of anthropological, historical, biographical, and artistic testimonies in support of her thesis and its conclusion is all-encompassing. Old age for Mile de Beauvoir is the natural conclusion of a lifetime of mental, physical and sexual deterioration, from the age of twenty on, which ends in death...
...maximum of 100 missiles at each location. Thus the U.S. will be able to complete its Safeguard ABM facility near Grand Forks, N. Dak., but must discontinue the other one it is building near Montana's Malmstrom Air Force Base. New appropriations would be required for an ABM array around Washington. The Soviet Union already has ABMs protecting Moscow; where it will place its second site is not known...
...Retardation Center has since given a needed boost to already existing community efforts by contributing money and staff, has started whole new programs, and has begun to coordinate services throughout the area. The Center now serves as the administrative focus for the whole Cambridge-Somerville Area, coordinating a comprehensive array of services for emotionally disturbed and mentally retarded people in eighteen locations...