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...authorizes the operation in the first months of pregnancy provided only that a woman and her own physician agree upon it. Virtually all the state's general, nonsectarian hospitals have been planning for A-day as elaborately, and with as much foreboding, as they would have for Dday. In one sense their fears may be justified. New York City alone expects 50,000 to 100,000 of its residents to apply for abortions each year and faces the possibility that an invasion from outside the state and city may swell the applicant total to 250,000 or even...
Less immediate, but no less fascinating to those involved, were the weeks of work necessary to produce such color spreads as Morocco, the latest In resort, Normandy on the 25th anniversary of Dday, the new nude look in fashion and Venice besieged by the elements. "One of the greatest services we can render," says Baker, "is to grab a subject like oceanography or lasers, which don't instantly suggest color, and illuminate a whole area that might otherwise be buried in scientific texts." And sometimes, too, there are those subjects which suggest nothing but color-such as the rainbow...
...walked across the Normandy field, gazing somberly upon the long, orderly rows of white crosses that mark the American cemetery near Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer. From Cherbourg to Le Havre, thousands of survivors of the Allied forces returned to the Continent last week to recall their roles on Dday, a quarter of a century ago. Lord Lovat, the commando leader, and General Sir Richard Gale, the British airborne commander, were back in uniform to commemorate the day. U.S. General James ("Jumpin' Jim") Gavin, now a corporate executive and persistent Viet Nam critic, chose to sit quietly...
...Dunkirk, and led the British Second Army when it stormed Normandy's Gold, Juno and Sword beaches in 1944 but later passed up offers of higher command and resigned because "I have spent too much of my life smashing things up"; in Yattendon, England, precisely 25 years after Dday...
There are abiding feuds among the coastal villages as to each one's role on Dday. Courseulles-sur-Mer claims that it, not Graye-sur-Mer, is the spot where George VI and Winston Churchill stepped ashore; the two villages are barely 50 meters apart. Sainte-Mère-Eglise and Bénouville, both in drop zones for Allied paratroops, are still haggling over which was liberated first (Bénouville was). To the thousands of tourists -mostly French-who come every year, the claims and counterclaims make little difference. They come and they look, silently, respectfully, moved...