Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their part, groups that favor free choice on abortion can claim no great record for tolerance either. Four months ago, the NOW chapter in Columbus voted to excommunicate one of its members, Pat Goltz. Her crime: she headed an anti-abortion organization called Feminists for Life...
Perhaps someone on his staff had read the Brock Yates article in Sports Illustrated or in Car and Driver, or perhaps had read the Yates book, "Sunday Driver," all of which mentioned the Yates-Gurney time from New York to Columbus--six hours. Yates said most of the cruising had been at about 80 to 90 mph, with a brief stretch on a western highway at 170 mph. The average speed, including gas stops and speeding delays, was about 80 mph. One incredible thing, though, made this race more than a case of boring elitism, Grand Prix pilot Gurney winning...
Nine hundred children were flown out of Viet Nam for the West Coast at week's end under the auspices of several agencies; the Holt International Children's Service planned to evacuate hundreds more this week. Mrs. Betty Tisdale of Columbus, Ga., a former associate of the legendary Dr. Thomas Dooley and mother of five adopted Vietnamese girls, left for Saigon to bring back 400 children from the orphanage she had helped found. Mrs. Tisdale received permission from Army Secretary Howard Callaway to house them temporarily at Fort Benning...
...those who want to disassemble Thurber as an eight-year-old would a broken alarm clock, the gears and springs are all here: the bow-and-arrow accident that cost him one eye at the age of six, the loopy Columbus boyhood, the insuperable Midwestern chauvinism, the sexual shyness, the days as a code clerk at the U.S. embassy in Paris, the two dozen straight rejections by The New Yorker, the friendships with Playwright-Actor Elliot Nugent and E.B. White, the odd adversary relationship with New Yorker Editor Harold Ross...
...order to do so, the commission asked for testimony from anti-abortion activists, lawyers, experts in medical morality and medical researchers. The Battelle Memorial Institute of Columbus, Ohio, a science research center, reported to the commission that tens of thousands of lives have been saved and countless future birth defects prevented by fetal research that would have been impossible under the present ban. By using live fetuses, important medical advances were made in developing German measles and Rh vaccines and in studying infant breathing problems and amniotic fluids.* At base the commission faces a classic conflict. On one hand, scientists...