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...toward life and death. With the discovery and widespread availability of antibiotics, we can no longer expect to die of an acute infectious disease before we reach 50 years of age. In 1973 our life expectancy is over 70 years. We can anticipate death following a long and debilitating chronic illness like heart disease, cancer or any of a series of neurological disorders including stroke. We can expect to suffer months of anguish on the road to death. Where the very nature of death itself has changed, so have our attitudes and perspectives on life and its termination. Euthenasia...
Died. Dudley Senanayake, 61, quiet, conservative, three-time Prime Minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka); of heart disease; in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Succeeding his father as Prime Minister in 1952, Senanayake found his government beset with chronic inflation, food shortages and a leftist opposition determined to socialize the economy. After two brief terms plagued by rising prices (1952-53, 1960), he returned as Prime Minister in 1965 and held office until his government's decisive defeat by the Communist-backed Sri Lanka Freedom Party five years later...
Bucky's girl friend Opal is in worse shape. Poisoned by drugs and suffering from chronic time lag due to constant travel, she can barely distinguish herself from her luggage. Meanwhile, the schlock rock of the '70s goes on. (For a flesh-and-blood reference, see the recent issue of Rolling Stone, in which Drag Star Alice Cooper says: "The sicker all you kids get, the greater the shows we'll have...
Mills would also like to empower the President to use a whole arsenal of devices to "safeguard" American industries threatened by rising imports and retaliate against countries that discriminate against U.S. goods or run a "chronic" surplus in trade with the U.S. An obvious target would be Japan, which accounted for $4.1 billion of the $6.8 billion deficit that the U.S. suffered last year in world trade. If Mills has his way, Nixon could raise tariffs against the goods of specific countries, establish quotas or negotiate agreements under which those nations would "voluntarily" restrain exports to the U.S. He also...
...structure and administration of the proposed Institute have been a chronic point of contention between the Administration and the Afro Department...