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...best-kept secret in the U.S. is that abortion is legal up to and including the ninth month of pregnancy. In 1973 the Supreme Court said that in the first three months states cannot interfere. In the second three months they may regulate, but not prohibit, abortions. In the last three months they may prohibit abortions in the interest of the baby's life. Some states, however, allow abortions through nine months...
...estimated $30 billion in 1976. The Western Europeans, in particular, have been snapping at every investment opportunity-Midwestern farms to outright acquisitions of sizable companies. Says Richard Roberts, a senior international investment adviser at Commerce: "This investment is the hottest thing on the economic scene, and is probably the best-kept secret in Washington...
...Only Ty Cobb (nine) and Rogers Hornsby (six) won more consecutive batting crowns. Now 31 and in his eleventh season with the Twins (in a state where they name snow cones after football players instead of candy bars after batsmen), Carew has spent a career as the best-kept secret in American sport-a long neglected but authentic hero. Now he can turn obscurity into immortality. According to no less an authority than Williams himself, Carew's chances of reaching his goal of a .400 season are good. Says Teddy Ballgame: "Of all the guys in the game...
...Island and Cincinnati to Los Angeles and Seattle talked gloomily of hunting for new jobs. The probability that lots of them would eventually find work on other military projects did little to soften the blow. Said one official at Rockwell's sprawling Los Angeles plant: "This was the best-kept secret since the atom bomb. And that's the way it hits...
...YEARS since Ben Shahn's widow donated 2000 of her late husband's photographs to the Fogg Art Museum, photography at the Fogg has risen from the status of stepchild to full fledged member of the illustrious family of "fine arts." Even now, one of the Fogg's best-kept secrets is its small but distinguished collection of 20th-century photographs, and rarely is a photography show celebrated with a black-tie opening or an expensive catalogue as was the current Ben Franklin exhibit. Despite the museum's limited budget and space, Contemporary Photographs V is the fifth...