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This rationale served while Kennedy's machine rolled relentlessly toward the nomination. Hopefully, the expediency motive could be tucked away after the convention victory; but the apologists had to drag it out again to abort the North's small uproar over the inclusion of Johnson on the ticket, and to excuse other disappointing aspects of the Kennedy campaign...
...reasons rooted in economy as well as military necessity, Diefenbaker called off development of the CF-105 Arrow, a 1,500-m.p.h. interceptor designed and test-flown by Toronto's A. V. Roe Canada Ltd. Instead of the Arrow, whose production abort will cost the Canadian taxpayers some $500 million all told, Canada will rely for antibomber defense during the next few years on U.S.-built Bomarc missiles. Canada will share the cost of launching sites with the U.S., control them jointly through the North American Air Defense Command. Later, NORAD-controlled U.S. fighters may be stationed in Canadian...
This blandness, Vidal maintained, creates "a spiritual ergot which causes young writers to abort early." He admitted that even his famous Visit was softened for general consumption...
Biology I: "Nature is discarding a defective fetus." But Dr. Javert and colleagues at New York Hospital made microscopic examinations of 2,000 aborted fetuses, found no abnormality in 22%. In nearly all these cases he suspected some fault in the mother's physical or psychic setup (cases attributed to defective sperm were exceedingly rare). One astonishing statistic, suggesting factors introduced by marriage: while 10% of married women abort, only 1% of unmarried women do so. Also surprisingly uncommon (seven cases in 2,000) was injury as a cause of abortion. "Nearly all pregnant women sustain some type...
...legally permissible and medically ethical to abort a woman for "psychiatric reasons"? In Britain, as in most countries, physicians and surgeons have addressed themselves diligently to this problem. Though far from unanimous in details, they have arrived at a clear consensus on the main point. The consensus: such an operation is very rarely justified...