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There are those who hold that contraception unfairly manipulates the workings of nature, and others who cannot see the fetus as a child until the umbilical cord is cut. Invoking an almost religious fervor on both sides of the issue, abortion is one of the most emotionally potent present political controversies. Motherhood is a powerful institution in American life, and both the "Pro-choice" (supporting a woman's right to choose) and the "Pro-life" (anti-abortion) forces see the other as attacking the foundations of the mother-infant bond...
They were all here. And many others, from surrounding suburbs and beyond. The Pope was expected at 3:30 p.m., but the people came as early as 10 a.m. to find a place by the sidewalk, huddled close to the yellow nylon cord strung between bright baby-blue barrels marking the route of the motorcade. It was a damp morning. The weary buildings belonged to the gray sky. But the street was proud with flags. Children held their own yellow-and-white papal banners-made the night before out of a glossy-stock insert from the Sunday Boston Globe...
Sports activites on Beacon St. wind down as the crowd grows. Earlier, tall men on roller skates careened down the steep hill, in and out between the barrels. The yellow cord now makes that impossible, and anyway, it's getting time to start thinking about serious things, like jockeying for position inside the Common. "As soon as you get in there, spread out," Elkhorn advises. "Take up as much room...
...Common wears a uniform. Those who don't wait outside, sleeping on the puddly cobblestone bundled in regulation down. And the Common itself wears the finest set of buttons and braid--15,000 specially painted 50-gallon oil drums and close to 18 miles of yellow polyester cord...
...THERE ARE PROBLEMS with federal education apparatus--and there clearly are--cutting the umbilical cord between education and its bureaucratic mother is no way to solve them. The estimated $17 million needed to establish a Department of Education would be better spent in an internal reorganization of HEW. Some interest groups have supported the idea of reorganization along the lines of the military services in the Department of Defense, an idea that must be explored further...