Word: contract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prevent the birth of malformed children, many doctors all over the U.S. perform abortions on women who contract German measles early in pregnancy. Yet such operations are still considered criminal acts, except in a few states (Colorado, North Carolina and Maryland). Three years ago, a few California doctors challenged their own state's restrictive abortion law by publicly announcing that they had aborted German-measles victims.* Now, a California superior court has handed down a ruling that contradicts the California law and challenges similar laws in other states as well. Not only do many doctors regard such abortions...
...many alternatives exist. Most girls are quite happy to cat in the yard, as Lehman's popularity testifies. Perhaps Harvard houses could be opened to Cliffies, with only a limited coffee-shop type of operation at Radcliffe. Or, the University of Pennsylvania manages with a two-meal, no-lunch contract (they serve lunch but it's not required...
...company which flies food into Biafra under contract to the Red Cross, and guns in under contract to the Biafran government (cash in advance), is called North American airlines, and is run by an American named Hank Wharton: nicknamed "Hanky-Panky, cause that's the only kind of business he'd want," McGuire says. Unofficial headquarters of the outfit is the Hotel Tivoli in Lisbon, where "Hanky-Panky" lives in Room 228--a room registered in the name of "a little mini-skirt with red hair"--and his chief assistant resides...
...details of the deal were exposed, all Belaúnde's familiar opponents exploded in an outburst of nationalist indignation. So did the left wing of his own party and the army. The military leaders were furious that their counsel had not been sought in concluding a contract dealing with oil, a resource vital to the country's security. Two weeks ago, Belaúnde responded to the outcry by firing his Cabinet, making it the scapegoat for the affair. But he replaced it with one that the army considered even less competent, and the coup last week...
Forceful Bargaining. Much of the surge in prices is attributable to soaring wages, which companies have decided to let the customers pay for. President Johnson tried, without success, to hold organized labor's annual contract increases to 3.2%. This year, the raises are more on the order...