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...life of our own children. Two centuries ago, as with many of us, a child's birth was an occasion of pride. Christening blankets were a traditional gift; often quotations from Scripture were embroidered on them, and they were handed down over the generations. The children were breast-fed-or if their parents were rich and interested in emulating the latest London trend, a wet nurse was hired. The child was wrapped in "flannel sheets," as the homespun blankets or quilts were usually called, and bedded in a cradle; diapers in the modern sense were unknown...
John Craigand Peter Tetlow came in 1-2 in the 200 fly while Haywood and Ted Fullerton finished firstand second in the 200 breast. Co-captain Fullerton had been in the water barely two weeks since a bout with mononucleosis but swam well enough to nab second...
...husband were misusing taxpayers' dollars (all those limos) until after he testified before the Senate Watergate Committee. And as to her husband's wrongdoings, she admits he committed some crimes, but, as she repeats ad nauseum, it was out of loyalty to Nixon; besides, he made a clean breast of it in the end. All of this is nothing more than conservative claptrap. Anytime she can avoid analysis or explanation, she does...
...printed in the Independent, saying that homosexuality was a threat to Harvard and that there were plenty of other qualified candidates that could be admitted to the college instead. After reading this I put down the two announcements of articles I had written being accepted for publication, beat my breast, and chased three "Cliffies" down the street. It was reassuring to know that the techniques I had developed at my very southern undergraduate school for being a not-so-subtle homosexual would be equally applicable at the nation's oldest college, and my oldest dream...
Wounded not only physically but also psychologically by a mastectomy, or removal of a cancerous breast, women who have undergone the operation often withdraw into inactivity and self-pity. But a dozen Californians who have gone through mastectomies have a livelier outlook on life. Thanks to a program of dance therapy developed by Diana Welch, 41, an artist-in-residence at the University of Santa Clara, they have been able to take advantage of the graceful, flowing action of classical ballet to regain fuller use of arms whose movements had been limited by the scarring produced by their operations...