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...with friends in the Union dorms instead of rooming in the Commander or Treadway. Others have bedded down in common rooms and living rooms further away from the activity around Mass Hall. Those who remain in their rooms say the inconvenience of transferring to the hotel outweighs the noise discomfort...
...Unity Day" celebration in Manhattan's Columbus Circle last June, a black gunman named Jerome Johnson pumped three 7.65-mm. slugs into Colombo. Johnson himself was immediately killed by a Colombo bodyguard. Colombo survived, although he is paralyzed and said to be virtually "a vegetable." To its acute discomfort, the Mafia, which flourishes best in secrecy, found itself awash in the same kind of publicity that followed the 1957 summit meeting in Apalachin, N.Y., where 60 chieftains from across the nation were arrested...
...MAJOR difficulty in formulating a satisfactory plan is the necessity to juggle the four often conflicting constraints of the issue: the number and location of available spaces, the number and ratio of men and women in the college, the necessity of having small enough male-female ratios to prevent discomfort on the part of female freshmen, and the necessity of having small enough freshmen upperclassmen ratios to provide adequate upperclass contact and advising. Due to the problems that such a juggling creates, it is probable that any plan will meet with at least initial disappointment on the part of some...
...conflict that leads me to the fury and violence and desire for retribution that I read in the heart of Flannery O'Conner. It is the Old Testament universe of emotion and the New Testament solution that are the irreconcilable poles of her world. This irreconcilability makes for the discomfort and the frustration of her stories. It is not Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church which finally rule Flannery O'Conner's imagination, but Hammurabi and his "Eye for an eye, and tooth for a tooth" theology and all the emotional regression and absolutism that that implies...
...variation on the D. and C. method that makes abortion even easier. Performed only through the twelfth week of pregnancy, the operation consists of dilating the cervix, inserting a metal tube attached to a small vacuum pump and drawing off the fetal matter into a bottle. Discomfort during the five-minute operation, which often includes a quick curettage, is minimal. Pain is all but eliminated in a refinement of vacuum aspiration developed by Harvey Karman, a Los Angeles psychologist: for pregnancies of less than ten weeks' duration, doctors use a thin plastic tube that is smaller in diameter than...