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Among those who disagreed strongly with Lichtheim's appraisal was Morton H. Halperin, assistant professor of Government. The Times, Halperin explained, "shares the weakness of American newspapers in general in interpreting the domestic policies of other countries." But Lichtheim, he said, "shares a European tendency to overlook the degree to which facts are important," and "for the facts, the Times can't be beat...
...between 10% and 20% of the women who contract the disease in those first three months are going to have babies with anomalies, it seems rather drastic to destroy the other 80% or 90% to guard against this." Other physicians take precisely the opposite view. Dr. Daniel G. Morton, obstetrics chief at the University of California Medical Center in Los Angeles, states frankly: "Therapeutic abortions have been done here for German measles and other reasons." Among the "other reasons" accepted at many medical centers are rape and incest...
...SCHATTEN AFFAIR by Frederic Morton. 309 pages. Atheneum...
...aluminum and glass waterhole. He needs the cooperation of the aged and mysterious Prince Schatten, who runs a crumbling resort hotel on the border of East Berlin. The prince is guarded by a sinister doctor and his coldly beautiful blonde daughter. That is the start, but after that Novelist Morton, author of the bestselling biography The Rothschilds, does none of the things a novelist is supposed to do. He shapes no story, evokes no emotion, tells no joke, makes no trenchant comment, follows no fascinating or even plausible character. His hero is a jackass even more boring than a professor...
...VINTAGE SERIES (RCA Victor) offers classic jazz and blues recordings cleaned up and rereleased. So far, Duke Ellington, Leadbelly, Jelly Roll Morton, Isham Jones and Coleman Hawkins have had a record each. Almost all are performances that have been completely unavailable for two decades or more...