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...seduce his son's girl friend. Then the family doctor has a go at the boy's next girl, who happens to be a deaf-mute. She runs off and is killed. Despite head-scratching reviews, the play is running strong. It will in all likelihood make its way to the U.S., where audiences can decide for themselves if God is really the father...
...Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center a New York City woman who had been barren for six years had borne quadruplets after treatment with a new hormone preparation. The drug has not only promoted fertility in many of the cases in which it has been tried, but has also increased the likelihood of multiple births. Of 21 women treated at Columbia, 15 became pregnant, and the seven completed pregnancies have produced three single babies, three sets of twins, and Mrs. Martin Brecker's quads...
...this suspense was rather painful for Hubert. But what could he do about it? There was every likelihood that the President might pass him over and anoint someone else. An amiably placid, retiring man like Mike Mansfield might suit Lyndon much more than an extraverted bundle of action like Hubert, for example. If that happened. Humphrey, at Johnson's behest, would in all probability get as a consolation prize Mansfield's job as Democratic majority leader...
...fair trial. To that end it is improper and professionally reprehensible for a lawyer so engaged to express to the public or in any manner extrajudicially any opinion or prediction as to the guilt or innocence of the accused, the weight of the evidence against him or the likelihood that he will be either convicted or acquitted...
...there seemed to be little likelihood that he would resume the frantic pace of his first 17 days in office. He has shed the foreign minister's portfolio, naming ex-Railways Minister Swaran Singh to handle India's relations abroad. It was a task that Jawaharlal Nehru himself used to carry, but there was no need for Shastri to kill himself merely in order to emulate his indefatigable predecessor. "It is not necessary," wrote a columnist in Bombay's influential Economic Weekly, "for Shastri to be Foreign Minister, Minister for Atomic Energy and Chairman of the Planning...