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...each prescription, which is expected to cover a month's supply of 20 pills, a woman under NHS will pay a token charge of 2 shillings (28?). The government will pay the rest, estimated at $2.08 a month. Health Minister Enoch Powell told Commons that he hoped doctors would prescribe the pills only when they had good reason to believe that a woman should avoid pregnancy. But in effect he conceded defeat in advance: "It is not for me to indicate to doctors what they should decide, for medical reasons, to prescribe for their patients." He therefore left...
Minister Malcolm emphasized, however, that repentance will be extremely difficult. The white man cannot "come up and offer some 'token integration' in return for the blood and sweat of 300 years of black slavery. It is not for the white man to decide the punishment or recompense...
...locust years, 1934 and 1935, that the finger of criticism should be pointed." For despite Chamberlain's "most valiant" championship of rearmament in the mid-'30's, so little was done that by September 1938. Britain was almost completely defenseless against air attack, had only a token quantity of modern antiaircraft guns and one operational Spitfire squadron. "After Munich," says Iain Macleod, "the last strong hopes of peace were not allowed to hold back our accelerating preparations against...
Several of the CRIMSON's stars will make only a token appearance in the some-what traditional contest; at halftime they will run off for the varsity's training table before the other game in the afternoon. Leading the Harvard team at quarterback will be sports editor Jumbo Ullyot, former passing great from Minneapolis...
Emphasizing the need for increased funds to problem schools, Conant stated, "The contrast in money spent per pupil in wealthy surburban schools and in the slum schools challenges the concept of opportunity in American public education." The Negro student will benefit more from improved schools, he added, than from token integration across zoning lines...