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...second class scholars at every level of the University. Though several women faculty members have been appointed this year, they will still account for only 1.9 per cent of all tenured appointments. Most of the women teachers in the University are clustered around the off-ladder positions which seldom lead to professional advancement...
...Nixon's closest domestic advisers are forever searching for political openings that they can exploit; to some of them, the care and feeding of the nation are almost incidental. There is no White House counselor on U.S. matters with the intelligence and skill of Kissinger, a phenomenon seldom seen in U.S. Government. The President needs half a dozen domestic Kissingers...
...Seldom since the troubles began have the gunmen been less popular with Ulster Catholics. The soldier's death, moreover, seemed to deepen the split between the I.R.A.'s Marxist-lining Official wing and their rivals, the militant Provisional wing. The Proves publicly demanded that the Officials get out of Londonderry; the Officials responded that the Provisionals were "just an extra battalion of the army...
...President could hardly have gone to Moscow at a more crucial and perhaps even more auspicious moment. Seldom in modern history have so many significant interacting trends been brought into focus at one conference. In the wake of West Germany's ratification last week of the treaties of Moscow and Warsaw, the way is now open for a further series of diplomatic maneuvers that with luck could finally defuse the old cold war confrontation in Europe. In the Middle East, perhaps the most unpredictable area of superpower involvement, the Soviets seem to be restraining their Arab allies, perhaps pending...
These percentages are the first statistical evidence that most abortion patients have conceived while under exceptional emotional stress. The results seem to support the widely accepted psychiatric belief that pregnancy is seldom a chance occurrence. Thus, Downs and Clayson conclude, the women they studied had unconsciously "chosen" pregnancy as a way of repairing "a threatened or damaged psyche." They needed their supposedly unwanted pregnancies, at least for a while, "to prove something to themselves"-perhaps that they were truly feminine, or that they were whole enough to create, or that they need not be entirely alone...