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Many Southerners voted for Richard Nixon primarily because they thought that he would reverse or at least slow down the process of school desegregation. While Finch treated the matter delicately at first, and with galling ambiguity, his commitment to integration was never really in doubt. His position is now clear enough, and Southerners who expected a change are disappointed...
Even on the question of running that risk over Mexico, there is no clear agreement, for different segments of the population respond differently. Harris found that Easterners would not run the nuclear risk for Mexico, 36% to 49%, while Westerners would, 51% to 36%; the explanation, presumably, is the obvious difference in geographical proximity. The young (under 35) tend to oppose use of nuclear weapons in the context of a Soviet-supported Cuban threat to Mexico by 43% to 40%, while their elders generally favor it by slightly more than the same margin. Those who voted for Humphrey...
...changes as among women using diaphragms. They call these changes "carcinoma in situ" (literally "cancer in place," as distinct from cancer that has spread). This condition is also known as "carcinoma, stage zero," and as a "precancerous condition," although it does not always lead to cancer. What is not clear is whether these women had any greater incidence of cell abnormalities than did other women who did not use diaphragms (some physicians consider the diaphragm to be a protective factor...
What was at first described as the transplant of an entire human eye was performed last week in Houston. Had the description been true, it would have been the world's first. But as the week wore on, it became clear that the transplant involved considerably less than an entire...
...case, the state contended that because the detention occurred during the investigatory rather than accusatory stage, there was no need to establish probable cause. Not so, wrote Justice William Brennan; to allow such investigatory seizures "would subject unlimited numbers of innocent persons to harassment and ignominy. Nothing is more clear than that the Fourth Amendment was meant to prevent wholesale intrusions on the personal security of our citizenry, whether these intrusions be termed 'arrests' or 'investigatory detentions.' " Since the seizure was improper, Brennan continued, the resulting fingerprints could not be used in evidence...