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Certainly a man or woman who is informed of a terminal disease should be allowed to decide, with the help of a doctor, to slip into death naturally without prolonging the agony...
...Crimson stall members did little about covering national news themselves, and the coverage of College news continued to slip. One day, the paper received this letter from a College official...
...envision privately what peace in Vietnam would be like, we can perhaps sense it when it is near, and it has never seemed nearer than it does today. If we act on Friday and Saturday, we can make sure that this last chance doesn't slip away. Demonstrate against the war this weekend, and you may never have to do it again...
...forecasting a slowdown in 1973, and this time it seems that they will be correct. As builders gather in Houston this week for the annual convention of the National Association of Home Builders, many concede that the industry cannot keep up the 1972 pace. Housing starts are expected to slip by 8% to 17%, to a range of 2,000,000 to 2,200,000; one recent Government estimate is 2,180,000 (see chart...
...course, the occasional slip in image by the two eulogizers that makes J.F.K. more interesting. For instance, there is their wry little confession that "Jack did like to have things done for him without hearing about the ' problems and difficulties involved." A touch of cruelty peeps through their obligatory record of Kennedy wit. A bit sadistically, he made Powers tell Irish jokes to Irishmen in Dublin. Once he ordered O'Donnell to lie over the phone while he watched...