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Callahan accepts the morality of contraception and urges that a cheap and easy method be found to obviate the resort to abortion. As an interim solution, he proposes a legal code permitting relatively easy abortion: on request up to twelve weeks, thereafter only for "serious" reasons. He would also provide extensive counseling and a "conscience clause" for medical personnel who do not want to take part in abortions. Paralleling the permissive law, on the other hand, Callahan proposes a vigorous public campaign encouraging contraception and discouraging abortion and a social program offering alternatives such as maternal care and child support...
...Paradise, Patrick Dennis' latest novel. The charisma, cheerful talent and canny sense of the absurd that brought fame to Mame are conspicuously absent this time. Too bad, because Dennis has invented a situation with comic possibilities. At the start of the tourist season an earthquake transforms an Acapulco resort into an island rocked by storms. Both amenities and necessities swiftly disappear. As Dennis' caricatures try to cope with life in the raw, long-distance television cameras grind away from the shore, picking up every grisly move. The show, a modified Candid Camera, grows more and more popular...
...gilded ghettos, producing stagnation and uncreative people." He scoffed at talk of armed black rebellion as simply "suicidal." Young was cheered when he accepted the concept of Black Power at a 1968 meeting of CORE, although he carefully defined it as a reach for "pride and community solidarity" without resort to violence...
Though it is too early to gauge the full effects of the broadcast ad ban, tobacco executives as yet feel no need to resort to such far-out expedients. Under relentless attack from critics, the tobacco industry withstood the 1970 recession better than almost any other U.S. business. New York's First National City Bank reported last week that seven tobacco companies raised their after-tax profits by a total of 19% last year, the second largest gain among 41 industries in the Citibank survey (the leader: amusement companies). The rise stemmed largely from successful diversification that has taken...
...perhaps most striking of the collaborators is photographer Gordon Willis. His lighting captures the muffled diffusion of city sun, the dank swank of a resort ballroom, the verdant warmth of a mid-afternoon in the park. Last year his talent was used only to dress up the dross of End of the Road -a film which burst apart by emphasizing the presence of violence, and not its causes; here he contributes to the success of a minor masterpiece which takes a very cool, bitterly funny look at some very harsh truths...