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...sent to the more than 10,000 hospitals throughout the U.S. Those that are found to practice segregation, he warned, will be denied federal funds. With billions of dollars of medicare benefits due to start flowing from Washington after July 1, few hospitals, public or private, are likely to dismiss his threat lightly...
Certainly, the generals had plenty to complain about. Indonesia's economy is a mess, proCommunists are back in the Cabinet, and Sukarno even had the effrontery to dismiss Defense Minister Abdul Haris Nasution, 47, leader of the anti-Red forces that thwarted the Communists' October coup. When the generals let matters ride, thousands of Djakarta students-with tacit approval from the military-went on a wild, three-week rampage, sacking government ministries, pillaging the Red Chinese consulate, and clogging the streets with their demonstrations...
...women want to be spared the burdens of pregnancy) and human tissues grown to specifications. The Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Willem J. Kolff prophesies "artificial skin with all the appendages built in, such as ears and nose." How they would look is a cosmetic problem that the doctors dismiss with a shrug...
...attack on the U.S. tradition of granting tax exemption to church-owned property, Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair filed a widely watched suit in Maryland that no constitutional scholar can lightly dismiss. Such exemption, she argued, hikes taxes for other property owners and violates the First Amendment because it amounts to taxation in support of religion...
That vote was originally scheduled for last night, but was deferred until a special meeting of the Council at 10 this morning. At last night's meeting, however the Council did reject "reconsideration of Wednesday's motion to dismiss John J. Curry '19, thereby making final Curry's removal...