Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central problem of abortion in the U. S. is that it is governed by criminal law rather than medical knowledge. Following English common law, the early U. S. regarded abortion as no crime before the fetus quickens in the womb (about five months); a miscarriage before 20 weeks still generally requires no death certificate or interment. But starting in 1860, many states outlawed abortion before as well as after quickening. New Hampshire, for example, bans hospital abortion before quickening, even to save a dying woman. The legal maze is extraordinary. In 17 states, unjustified abortion is a felony that carries...
...programatic points of strength that Harvard AAAAS has outlined as its central activity thus indicate the actual motivation of increased activism on the part of Harvard blacks. They are reacting to the Harvard community which for many black students is insufficient in academic, social and cultural aspects. Most black students feel greater empathy with Roxbury than they do with Harvard Square...
During the past week, Cambridge police officers have raided three apartments in the Central Square area, arresting some 30 people on narcotics charges. None of those arrested were students. Police seized quantities of marijuana, hypodermic syringes and a large number of pills which are now being analyzed by state chemists. They photographed squalid living conditions--everything from splintered furniture to a mouldy refrigerator--in the hippie pads...
...suitably opulent setting, Brazil hastily completed the late architect Affonso Eduardo Reidy's beachfront Museum of Modern Art, despite some peculiarly Latin difficulties. University students wrecked the bulldozers that were about to demolish their subsidized, low-price restaurant, which blocked access to the imposing museum. Brazil's central bank bought off the students with a promise of free meals for 20 days, and quickly built a substitute restaurant near...
...central determinant of success, he said, "is whether or not the applicant has the intellectual capacity to do the work required of him and the emotional maturity and motivation to use his intelligence effectively...