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...even at the expense of losing the rudder. For the monster took a turn off about 300 yards ahead, then turning short came around with his utmost speed and again struck the ship a tremendous blow with his head and with such force as to stove in the whole bow at the water's edge. One of the men who was below at the time came running upon deck saying "The ship is filling with water...
...nabbed by the Fashion Police, that particularly obnoxious feature. Mark Zanger, editor since August, shortened articles and straightened styles in an unsuccessful effort to keep the paper afloat. He wanted he told Alexander Cockburn, to make it "cheap, vulgar, lurid, left wing, intellectual and satirical, with a bow to the National Enquirer." The trouble is, cheap and vulgar and especially satire often fade to cute, which is rarely as good as honest and funny...
...with the consent of parents -to receive abortions at state expense during the first 90 days of pregnancy. Currently, there are about 200,000 such legal operations every year, and the rate is climbing; there are also an estimated 600,000 illegal abortions annually, mostly because many approved clinics bow to church opposition and refuse to perform the operations. Voters also overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to make the 1978 abortion law even more liberal...
...battle at Talloires developed into such an explosive confrontation between delegates and their guest speaker, UNESCO Director-General Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, that his interpreter was unable to keep up with the angry exchanges. UNESCO'S press curbs, said Cushrow Irani, chairman of the International Press Institute and publisher of The Statesman of Calcutta, would "transform the press into an instrument of governments." British Journalist and Author Rosemary Righter (Whose News?) reminded the director-general that he had once said the press should be responsible "for promoting cohesion and integration" in Third World nations. M'Bow...
...race. Harvard finished third behind Princeton and Yale--the first time since 1965 that they weren't in first. "It was an extremely aggressive race and Yale just refused to quit." bow seat Fred Geyer said yesterday...