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...will be attractive to many of the young. He is most knowledgeable in federal-state relations and problems of the cities. Even though he led the convention fight for the majority plank on Viet Nam, he has seldom spoken out on the war and privately has serious reservations about current American policy in Southeast Asia...
...will be a guest of the government for a few weeks. She plans to come to the U.S. later this year and remain for good. Although she reports she herself was always treated with respect in her native land, she says her departure is a protest against the current wave of anti-Semitism in Poland...
Stretching the Rule. The SEC's current effort to force the exchanges to pare their commissions began only this year, but the drive to erase insiders' advantages in the stock market started long ago. The agency established in 1961, in the Cady, Roberts case, that a broker who buys or sells stock on the basis of inside information commits fraud. Such police work intensified after Lawyer Manuel F. Cohen, an austere career civil servant, took over as SEC chairman in 1964. In the Merrill Lynch case, the SEC contends that not only the inside-tip giver is acting...
Each infarct, or area of dead muscle, can interfere with the flow of electrical impulses that serve as the heart's ignition system. Normally, a current is generated for each beat at the "sinus node" (situated where blood enters the upper right heart). The charge then passes through the walls of the two upper chambers (auricles), making them contract. Then the signal is channeled through the auriculoventricular node (where the heart's four chambers meet), and passes through the ventricles' walls...
...another futuristic fantasy, people leave their own bodies and enter at will any one of a stockpile of more attractive bodies. It is a ludicrous extension of the current preoccupation with heart and other body-part replacements, and Vonnegut uses it to poke fun at the idea that social and emotional problems occur only because humanity is locked in decaying protoplasmic prisons. The author is even more pointed in his attack on the notion that if all humans are not born equal, the good society will equalize them. Consequently, in his story Harrison Bergeron, a "Handicapper General" cripples people mentally...