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...deal with constitutional issues raised by California's new law, the Therapeutic Abortion Act of 1967. The decision did suggest, though, that the new act makes it easier for a doctor to decide when he may legally perform an abortion. Roy Lucas, a lawyer on the board of the Association for the Study of Abortion, believes that the new act is still too vague, but applauds the new ruling. He believes that it provides a weighty precedent for court action in other states and affirms a legal trend in recent years that would make all such intimate matters...
...dream of extraterrestrial life was stimulated earlier this summer by preliminary interpretations of data sent back from Mars by the twin Mariner probes. Hurriedly examining the readings from his infrared spectrometer on board Mariner 7, Chemist George C. Pimental had dramatically announced that the Martian atmosphere probably contained traces of ammonia and methane, two gases produced on earth by bacterial decay. The implication was clear: there might well be micro-organisms on Mars...
General Electric lifted its wholesale prices by about 3% on electric ranges, refrigerators, freezers and home laundries. General Foods' Maxwell House raised the wholesale price of coffee by 5%. The air-fare increase, approved by the Civil Aeronautics Board, will be effective Oct. 1. The average first-class fare will go up 7%, the average coach fare 3½%. It will be the second increase this year for the financially ailing airlines. In March, the CAB approved a 4% rise...
...consumer might think that there is no end in sight to runaway prices. Yet last week Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. of the Federal Reserve Board told Congress that the nation is "at the tail end" of its siege of inflation. "We're making slow and steady progress," Martin insisted. "There are indications that we may be getting to the end of very high interest rates." Maybe so, but last week interest rates on short-term Government notes jumped to still another record high. Example: 6½% on a $356 million issue of New York State tax-free notes...
Judged by the sum of their special living allowances, bonuses and "hardship" pay, American businessmen working abroad are considerably better off than their stay-at-home counterparts. At least that is the conclusion of the National Industrial Conference Board in a report issued after a survey of 104 senior executives of U.S. corporations with international operations...