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Neil L. Chayet '57, attorney for Charles, says the statute forbids "unlawful conveyance of a dead body." This aspect of the case calls to question just whan a fetus becomes a baby, and the Supreme Court's distinction between over-six-months and under-six-months is apt to become a sore point of contention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Doctors Face Charges For Abortion | 6/13/1974 | See Source »

Before they make any concessions, the Radcliffe trustees are apt to consider, more than statistics or deficits, how much Harvard has upheld the trust made in 1971, in terms of what it has done for the education of women...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Radcliffe Trustees Play A Waiting Game | 6/13/1974 | See Source »

...professional woman who hires a maid to care for her household while she is out building a career. So concluded Doris B. McLaughlin, a labor expert at the University of Michigan, who surveyed domestics working for 50 professional women in Ann Arbor and found that the employers were apt to deny their household help benefits they themselves take for granted. Less than 5% of the employers provide paid holidays and a scant 11% grant paid sick leave. Regular, automatic raises are given by only 17% of the employers and only 53% of the professional women paid into the social security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Male and Female | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...Knicks get hot, they will shut down the Celtics' fast-breaking offense and force them into a slow, methodical patterned style of play which the Knicks roving, switching defense is apt to take advantage...

Author: By Gilbert A. Kerr, | Title: Celtics Crush Knicks, Travel to New York Tonight | 4/16/1974 | See Source »

...three-volume megabiography of Henry James, Leon Edel avoided pedantry and trivia while still painting a detailed picture. Realizing the significance of this achievement, Edel explained his principles in a book called Literary Biography. His conclusions now stand as an apt indictment of Joseph Blotner's eight-and-a-half pound Faulkner: "the writing of a literary life would be nothing but a kind of indecent curiosity, and an invasion of privacy, were it not that it seeks always to illuminate the mysterious and magical process of creation." Blotner fails this test; he does not disengage the essence of Faulkner...

Author: By Walter S. Isaacson, | Title: Intrusion in the Dust | 4/13/1974 | See Source »

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