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...regard Colorado-style laws as a blatant c^se of state-approved eugenics, never before established in U.S. law. To abort a rubella (German measles) victim, they say, is to rely on the purely statistical chance (average odds: 50-50) that her child may be defective-and to doom a possibly perfect baby in the process. To abort a fetus produced by rape or incest, they say, is to execute the most innocent partv in the trianele purely for the mother's social convenience. Even the rapist is guaranteed a trial based...
...installs Daughter-in-Law Sara as mistress of the Harford mansion. Simon, an erstwhile poet turned gimlet-eyed merchant, agrees-if he can absorb the entire firm and expunge his father's name. Deeper shades of Oedipus. In the end, mother goes mad; Simon and Sara's doom seems to await another play. The collegiate aphorist in O'Neill has sententiously announced: "Success is its own failure...
Gloom, Not Doom. "We are still thinking in terms of our individual nations and not of the common benefits," complained a Venezuelan official after the conference finally broke up. Chile's Foreign Minister Gabriel Valdés Subercaseaux decried the "exaggerated, abusive" use of the veto, and Ecuador's delegate to Asunción, Julio Prado Vallejo, said flatly that the conference demonstrated "the unacceptability of new compromises...
Though Tshombe could not be extradited for purely political reasons, ruled the Algerian Supreme Court, "Algerian justice does not shield murder and robbery." If President Houari Boumediene ratifies the Court's decision Tshombe must go home-presumably to his doom. For the best-known avocat in the French-speaking world, it was a rare, bitter defeat. In 20,000 cases, Floriot has lost only two clients to the guillotine and about ten to the firing squad...
...think bibliography of 370 sources, Mumford argues that making and using tools didn't signal man's rise from slime. Dreams, language, ritual-all first products of the mind-did. And because the mind is father to the hand, it can reverse the mechanized march to doom. How that might happen will have to wait until Mumford's sequel; this book ends in the 16th century with Kepler, Tycho Brahe and Copernicus metaphorically anticipating the end machine-the bomb...