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Geneva, which cradled Calvinism and the League of Nations and between times innocently got its name mixed up with gin, has lately gained fame in another capacity: the abortion capital of western Europe. In the little canton (pop. 200,000) which embraces the lake city, 1953 saw no less than 3,277 legal abortions, of which 1,761 were performed on nonresidents. In Geneva last year the number of legal abortions exceeded the number of live births...
Knotty Business. No Genevan has smarted under the city's reputation as the abortion capital more than Antoine Pugin, head of the cantonal health department and a Catholic. Pugin laid down some stiff rules: hereafter, doctors authorized to approve abortions shall serve only three-year (instead of indefinite) terms. In this way, he dropped Dr. Flournoy. Also, doctors shall make quarterly reports, setting forth their reasons for granting permission in each case. Finally, Pugin decreed, all candidates for abortion must be observed for an indefinite period, at the canton's mental hospital and psychiatric clinic...
Liberals, right-wing Democrats, Socialists and Communists in the cantonal council cried that Pugin was exceeding his authority and ordering doctors to violate professional secrecy. Last week the cantonal council decided that the whole problem was too knotty for quick solution and postponed final action on Pugin's restrictive rules. Meanwhile, the abortion business in Geneva slumped, but boomed in the nearby canton of Vaud, which includes Lausanne. And a Vaud official said plaintively: "We don't want to become a sort of Reno for abortions...
...verbs and adjectives. Remember: There never was a verb better than 'said' . . . We've had phrases like 'stinging attack,' 'stinging rebuke' and the verb 'noted,' which connotes truth. The prize of them all (not A.P.) was this lead: 'Canton, Ohio- Senator McCarthy disclosed today the Democratic Party was the "party of treason."'* Which re-emphasizes: There never was a verb better than 'said...
...first stop was Charleston, W.Va., where, on a cold, wet night, he drew a good crowd of 2,800 to an auditorium that had seats for 3,517. Next stop was Canton. Ohio, where he drew 4,000 to an auditorium built for 6,000-competing with bad weather and a championship high-school basketball game. From there he went on to Mt. Clemens, Mich., then to a jampacked, impassioned session with 1,000 of his fellow Wisconsinites in Madison's Eagles Hall. Sample McCarthy extravagance: "The Democratic label is now the property of men who have been unwilling...