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Fertility clinics across the U.S. were swamped last week with anxious pleas for "that new drug that makes twins or quads." The furor was touched off by the disclosure that at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center a New York City woman who had been barren for six years had borne quadruplets after treatment with a new hormone preparation. The drug has not only promoted fertility in many of the cases in which it has been tried, but has also increased the likelihood of multiple births. Of 21 women treated at Columbia, 15 became pregnant, and the seven completed pregnancies have produced...
Like Gibraltar, the tiny, barren is lands of Malta have always been at the crossroads of history. There, 15 centuries before Christ, the Phoenicians set up a trading colony. In 60 A.D., the Apostle Paul found haven on a rocky beach near Valletta after his ship wreck, and in 1565 the Turkish invasion fleet was driven off by the Knights of Malta. More recently, during World War II, the Maltese withstood almost daily bombardment by Axis planes, kept Britain's crucial Mediterranean sea lanes open. For 35 centuries invaders came, ruled, and were swept aside by new invaders...
Britain does not intend to leave its former colony high and dry, has committed $15 million to an ambitious five-year industrial-expansion program that has already created a small but thriving factory district in Valletta. But Malta is far too tiny (122 sq. mi.) and barren to produce enough to feed its dense population of 330,000. So Nationalist Prime Minister George Borg Olivier is taking the path of Malta's history: loudly promoting the glories of its wide beaches, its ornate cathedrals, mosques and fortresses, and its 4,000-year-old ruins, he is looking forward...
...such war in ghastly hues. Said he in his Detroit Labor Day speech: "In the first nuclear exchange, 100 million Americans and more than 100 million Russians would be dead. And when it was over, our great cities would be in ashes, and our fields would be barren, and our industry would be destroyed, and our American dreams would have vanished." Last week, in Seattle, Lyndon upped his casualty figures to 300 million, not including "unborn generations forever maimed." Without ever precisely saying so, he gives the strong impression that he will never let any such catastrophe happen by reason...
Would-be summer wonks had better skip the Loeb production of "Love's Labour's Lost." Otherwise, like Ferdinand of Navarre, they might realize the folly of spending one's life in bookish pursuits and come to bemoan those "barren tasks, too hard to keep--Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep...