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...that Dick Tuck has angered Richard Nixon as much as any other man alive. As relentlessly as Inspector Javert trailed Jean Valjean, as doggedly as Caliban followed Prospero, as surely as a snowball seeks a top hat, Prankster Tuck stalked his quarry from one campaign to the next. "Keep that man away from me," Nixon ordered his staff, who were seldom able to oblige. Ultimately, Nixon paid his adversary the highest compliment: in the 1972 campaign, the White House decided to employ a Dick Tuck of its own. As H.R. Haldeman testified last week, Donald Segretti was hired to adopt...
After personally supervising more than 200 pregnancies for women who had had three or more consecutive pregnancies ending in abortion. Javert developed a highly personal method of treatment. He still relies heavily on vitamins A. C and K. also on hesperidin (sold as a source of the controversial vitamin P) to discourage the premature bleeding which often signals (and may cause) abortions. He was one of the first to use tranquilizers. Impressed with the fact that many patients do not gain weight early in their pregnancies, but may actually lose, he encourages them to eat all they want then, watches...
Insecurity Is Catching. Because Dr. Javert believes so strongly that the marital situation is often to blame, he calls in both husband and wife for detailed interviews. He finds that a wife who feels insecure about her husband's love or overshadowed by his having had a previously successful marriage with children, is likely to have an insecure fetus. Often such couples rate high on the Kinsey scale of sexual activity: Dr. Javert holds that orgasm predisposes to uterine contractions and premature labor, therefore forbids intercourse during pregnancy. Granting that much remains co be learned about the workings...
...results, Dr. Javert's patients achieve the motherhood of a live, healthy baby (often two or three of them) in 80% of cases. This, he concedes, is about the same measure of success reported by other anti-abortion specialists using different methods, some directly opposed to his. But there is not necessarily any conflict in these facts and figures. By no coincidence, all the most successful obstetricians and gynecologists go in for massive doses of reassurance and emotional support to the troubled women they treat. Thrice-married Obstetrician Javert, father of two, prescribes other comforts in moderation-wine...
...There is confusion within and without the medical profession over the terms abortion and miscarriage. Many doctors use "abortion" to describe a delivery in pregnancy's first three months, "miscarriage" for one in the next three months, "prematurity" for one in the seventh and eighth months. Dr. Javert views "spontaneous abortion" and "miscarriage" as synonyms covering delivery of a fetus in its first 22 weeks, when it cannot possibly survive...