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Campion said Hilary W. Putnam, professor of Philosophy, would present the SDS demands to the faculty meeting. But Putnam refused to confirm this report last night...
...people to learn when abortions are permitted and how to go about applying for them. Secondly, many women seeking a quick end to an unwanted pregnancy are not interested in the elaborate procedures required for a legal solution. Another factor is cost. Specialists have to be called in to confirm the medical justification advanced, and their fees, added to the usual cost of even minor surgery and a short stay in the hospital, can run the total bill up to $2,000. Many women who can afford such costs prefer to go to Mexico or Puerto Rico, where abortion, although...
...walked into Hartford's Hotel America, ready to confirm reservations for up to 200 rooms that he would need by the end of the week, and found there were none. There had been a mixup, perhaps because of a rumored "collection problem." Keeping calm, he telephoned Humphrey's Washington headquarters. "Get John Bailey," he was told. The former Democratic National Committee chairman was out. Murphy and an aide solved the hotel dilemma with a $5,000 check. Bailey appeared and provided him with a secretary, typists and a driver. Murphy set up his headquarters in the hotel, where...
...When an epidemiologist begins to mine a mountain of case histories, death certificates and related data, he can be virtually sure to find: 1) evidence tending to confirm well-established theories, and 2) something totally unexpected. That is exactly what happened to Statistician E. Cuyler Hammond when he dug into the records of 352,000 men and 440,000 women enrolled nine years ago in the American Cancer Society's long-range epidemiological study...
...styles are not empirically defined, and are more the result of the judicious impressions of his workers in the field. Indeed, the book falters most noticeably when Wilson attempts to use selected tables of arrest statistics to bolster his argument on the styles. The statistics do tend to confirm that the styles exist, but they also lead him into tiresome digressions to explain anomalies in certain of the tables...