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...descended of peasant Irish and large-boned Teutonic stock. Round-faced and broad-hipped, doubtless some day I will be able to drop babies in the field like peas from a pod, and return to the plow before the sun is high in the sky. Right now, being young, basically healthy, and female, I recognize the almost overwhelming potential of my body for conception. At this stage, however, I wonder whether the fertility I am burdened with must necessarily cloud every doctor's perceptions of my illnesses. I go to UHS when I think I have a sore throat...
Despite the heavy personal cost to the Nixons, the White House doubtless wishes that somehow the books could be snapped shut as decisively and relatively cleanly on Watergate as they were last week on the President's tax problems. Of course, they cannot be. But a lesson lurks in the swift disposition of the case of Nixon's taxes. It was the White House's full and prompt cooperation with the tax investigators that sped the resolution of the affair...
...scheduled return of man to space is next year's joint U.S.-Soviet mission. In preparation for that three- to five-day, linked-up swing round the earth, Russian space technicians and cosmonauts are frequent visitors to NASA these days. Though the docking of superpower space travelers will doubtless provide a compelling symbol of peaceful cooperation between nations, space buffs are inclined to view it as a political rather than a piloting event...
...done by Mr. Onassis it is a Greek streak, by any Welshman a leek streak. In the Middle East Henry Kissinger has doubtless seen a sheik streak. Men of humble mien do a meek streak, while those running fully clothed through a nudist colony do a freak streak. If the act is performed in Bergdorf's, it is, no doubt, a chic streak, and in any high fashion store, a boutique streak. The solo act is a unique streak; a group performs a clique streak. The chosen footwear suggests the sneaker streaker. The possibilities appear limitless...
...assailant could have learned where Anne and her husband were to be on the day of the attack by the simple expedient of reading the "Court Circular," a chronicle of the royal family's activities that is published in a number of London papers. Such publicity will doubtless now be limited, and extra protection has already been assigned to the royal family. Nevertheless, there is still understandable resistance to change the traditions of centuries. The royal family has "no intention of living in bulletproof cages," said a palace spokesman. After all, pointed out Home Secretary Roy Jenkins...