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...Jersey's Charles Joelson was brushed aside when he proposed a "do-it-yourself economy kit" with which each Congressman would trim 5% from federal projects in his own district. Michigan's Martha Griffiths captured the mood perfectly when she volunteered: "If the rest of you want to cut something out of your districts, I'll be glad to help." No one took up the offer. Silvio Conte of Massachusetts pointed to the "Capitol police falling all over themselves, elevator operators running automatic elevators." Even Arizona's John Rhodes, who as chairman of the House Republican...
Do-It-Yourself Kit. It was a blatant bit of buckpassing. Moreover, only a week earlier the House had passed a pay increase for civilian employees that was more generous than the Administration had requested. That bill singled out the postal workers, who have the most powerful civil service lobby, for a larger raise than other groups and denied employees of the Office of Economic Opportunity any raise at all. Many of the most economy-minded Congressmen protested when the Administration recently imposed temporary freezes on certain construction projects. In the course of a six-hour debate last week, members...
Ultimately, of course, the issue may become academic. The rapid development of contraceptives suggests that women may some day become essentially infertile and thus free to decide precisely when they wish to become fertile. Such safe, do-it-yourself abortifacients as the morning-after and the once-a-month pill are also likely to make abortion entirely a private matter. Still, those pills are far from being perfected-and may well run afoul of anti-abortion laws. Meanwhile, even present contraceptives do not solve the abortion problem...
...various stages of construction in garages and basement workshops. "I know of one man," says Poberezny, "who built a plane in the cabin of a Great Lakes ore ship." Working in his spare time, with a good set of commercial plans (most popular: the Pitts Special biplane), a handy do-it-yourself enthusiast can turn out an airworthy, 100-m.p.h. plane for as little...
Even this extreme measure may become academic within a few years. Princeton's Methodist Theologian R. Paul Ramsey predicted that "with safe, do-it-yourself abortion medications, abortion will be brought entirely into the arena of private decision." A bit sanguine perhaps, but not beyond possibility. The morning-after and once-a-month pills are still in the early laboratory and testing stages, but medical researchers are hard at work trying to make Dr. Ramsey's prediction come true...