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...vagina in the daughters of women who took it for other purposes (TIME, Aug. 2). The Food and Drug Administration has not approved it for general use as a pregnancy preventive. Until DES is better understood, say the doctors, the morning-after pill should be only a last resort...
...none of Burger's doing that the court is today regarded by so many disinherited Americans as the last resort, and perhaps it ought not to be. The Chief Justice appears to feel that state and lower federal courts should deal with narrow issues, while the larger social problems should be resolved through the legislative process whenever possible. Liberals may agree with this theory, but they fear that as a practical matter, majority-oriented politics will not adequately champion the rights of the individual. The new court may nonetheless force liberals to use politics more vigerously, rather than the judicial...
...from the viewpoint of parents is the difficulty in taking long family vacations. But in most states approval by the legislature is needed to allow school boards to tinker with the schedule. Many legislators are reluctant. One bill was defeated in New York last spring when legislators from summer-resort areas objected that revisions would hurt their constituents' business...
...that anymore). There is a White House performance of a Bob Hope Christmas tour with a bevy of gyrating girls singing the President's praises just as if he were old Charlie Kane throwing for himself a stag party. (The ends to which men must resort to hear their praises sung in an ostensible democracy!) And there is that unforgettable moment at the '68 Republican Convention in which Dick exhorts the following to "win this one for (the dying) Ike," which De Antonio intercuts with Pat O'Brian appealing to the Notre Dame football team to "win this...
Disney World's impact on its surroundings has been considerable. The resort's attorneys, operating undercover, bought their property in the early '60s for about $185 an acre-but up to $300,000 an acre has since been paid for locations close to Disney World's gates. Disney's economists indicate that the park's opening eventually may add $6.6 billion annually to state income, including $343 million in new tax revenues. Along with the new regional prosperity, however, have come some eyebrow-raising "special arrangements." Florida's legislature, influenced by skillful lobbyists...