Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early 20s, single and seeking her first abortion. Not knowing where to turn, it is very likely that she will consult the classified-ads section of a newspaper, where abortion counseling and clinic services are listed. If she lives in the Chicago area, she will probably be directed to a clinic in the city's Magnificent Mile area. There, nestled among the posh Michigan Avenue stores, she will find a luxurious office filled with glass-and-chrome modular furniture. A receptionist tells her that for $150 to $250, payable in advance in cash or by Medicaid or credit cards...
That is what investigators from the Better Government Association and a team of Chicago Sun-Times reporters headed by Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick discovered after a five-month undercover probe of six of the city's 13 legal abortion clinics. Two of the clinics performed admirably, the investigators say, but four others, which together do one out of every three abortions in the Chicago area, are assembly-line outfits concerned only with making money...
...operations within three minutes (a safe abortion usually takes about 15), do not administer anesthetics or do not wait for them to take effect, and race each other to see who can perform the most operations in a day. According to the investigators, Dr. Ming K. Hah of the Chicago Loop Mediclinic and Michigan Avenue Medical Center may provide the fastest and most painful abortions in Chicago. He makes a pencil mark on the leg of his scrub suit for each abortion and tallies them up at the end of the day. In their haste, doctors often fail to remove...
...formality is evident. It can be read literally in the sales and rentals of tuxedos, which are considerably higher than they were several years ago. Says the manager of Los Angeles Tuxedo Center: "There is definitely a return to the '30s look ?chic, elegant tuxedos." In Chicago, I. Magnin's bridal-wear sales are up 70% over last year. After the era of write-it-yourself Kahlil Gibran barefoot weddings, the large traditional marriage ritual and reception are returning...
...manners of the urban singles scene can be as perplexing as the mating dances of the graylag goose. Psychotherapist Al Manaster observed a singles bar called Butch Maguire's in Chicago and detected four distinct sets of rules at work. "In the front section near the window, it is the garden of narcissism," he explains. "People go there just to be seen, not to make out. At the bar there is heavy hitting. You stand there to get picked up. The pinball section is heavy macho, with horseplay between the sexes. In the back room is backgammon, where the more...