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Wald's motion would amend an alternative to the Doty Report proposed last Thursday by 22 Faculty members, including Wald. Under the amendment, students could take any combination of departmenal and Gen courses. The Committee on General Education would expand its present offerings by providing several two-year sciences in the Natural Sciences...

Author: By Stephen E. Cotton, | Title: Wald to Seek Heavier Load Of Nat Sci's | 2/15/1965 | See Source »

...Africa or Asia is not surrounded by demonstrators hurling rocks or at least carrying anti-American placards, with the tacit approval of the local government. This suggests to many people that the U.S. ought to worry a lot less about the "neutrals." There is considerable sentiment in Congress to amend the President's foreign-aid requests (see box) to cut off funds for such countries as Egypt, which is funneling arms to the Congo rebels, and Indonesia, which keeps harassing pro-Western Malaysia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: The Ultimate Self-Interest | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

...record literally from A (for airport-"We made it self-supporting") to Z (for zoo -"The city is getting some rare albino kangaroos"). But his administration has been marred by his constant and noisy fights with the city council, and he is currently involved in a controversial attempt to amend the city charter to give the mayor more power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: After Sam's Scalp | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

...academy's prescription: amend the law to permit "therapeutic abortion where there is a substantial risk that the continuance of pregnancy would gravely impair the physical or mental health of the mother, or that the child would be born with grave physical or mental defects." As safeguards, the academy would require prior approval of an operation by a committee of hospital doctors, and the abortion would have to be done by a licensed physician under the usual safe, sterile conditions in a hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Abortion, Legal & Illegal | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

...believes the church ought to amend its stand on birth control. "Practically all Protestant bodies today repudiate the position that contraception is forbidden by natural law. Moreover, great numbers of Catholics, perhaps even the great majority, are either disregarding the law altogether or their marriages are in serious trouble of breaking up." He feels that cumbersome marriage annulment procedures, which sometimes take several years, ought to be expedited. He militantly presses his church to support the ban-the-bomb movement, drawing a comparison between the church's concern for the lives of babies not conceived because of birth control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Gadfly | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

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