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...Phillips Brooks House. 5 - Harvard endorses 3 women for the Rhodes Scholarship, breaking a 71-year-old tradition that restricted the award to male students. The administrators of the Rhodes program ignore the nominations. 7 - War breaks out in the Middle East as tank battles raged along the Suez Canal and the Golan Heights. Israeli jets bombed the Syrian capital of Damascus and struck Cairo as well. 10 - Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigns, pleading no contest to income tax evasion. Three days later, Nixon nominated House Minority Leader Gerald Ford to replace Agnew. 10 - Nissan Motor Company of Japan...
...types of procedures are most commonly used in a second-trimester abortion. In an intact dilation and extraction (D&X) abortion, a doctor first brings the fetus by its feet into the birth canal, leaving the head--too large at that point in pregnancy to pass through the cervix--in the womb. To complete the procedure, the doctor punctures its skull and extracts its contents. In a dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion, the woman's cervix is also dilated, but the fetus is dismembered before being removed in pieces through the vagina. Under questioning from Justice Sandra...
...luxury airline has helped shake up an industry whose standard service--or lack thereof--is regarded by most flyers as scarcely more pleasant than root-canal work. To counter that image, American Airlines plans to yank enough seats from all of its domestic fleet by the end of the year to allow coach passengers up to an extra 4 in. of legroom. United offers a similar program in its first 10 rows but only for those holding full-price economy tickets or for premier frequent flyers...
...chance came Wednesday night, at her friend Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin's Miami Beach home. Police cars lined streets; patrol boats cruised on the canal behind the house. Demonstrators shouted in Spanish that Reno was a witch. For 2 1/2 hours she talked with Elian, Lazaro, Marisleysis and their Miami handlers, as Elian moved from lap to lap. At one point during the negotiations, the boy even began playing with one of Reno's security people. "You know, we could solve this real quick," the agent reportedly said. "I could walk out of here with him right...
...about their abs and their arid social lives. ("I'm not really hungry," one of them says, "but I'd like to have reservations someplace.") Some of the wit may sound insidey--Ed Gein, the real-life inspiration for Norman Bates, is ID'd as the "maitre d' at Canal Bar"--but it makes a point. To Patrick, serial killers and cafe staffers are interchangeable celebrities...