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Last week police raided one of the self-help movement's temples, the Women's Center in Los Angeles. They arrested two of its leaders for practicing medicine without a license. Carol Downer, one of the movement's founders, was accused of diagnosing a woman's illness as a vaginal infection and treating it with an application of yogurt (the lactic acid in yogurt is supposed to provide a hostile environment for some organisms; without laboratory tests it is difficult to determine whether the treatment is appropriate). Colleen Wilson was charged with performing a menstrual extraction...
Although Wilson pleaded guilty to one of eleven counts and drew a $250 fine and two years' probation, Downer pleaded not guilty and insisted on a trial. The case seems likely to become a feminist cause célèbre. Women's Liberationists have begun to raise funds for Downer's defense, which is expected to center on women's right to know their own bodies. The clinic, meanwhile, is continuing to challenge the state by doing business as usual...
...putting the arm on big contributors for McGovern's primary battles, raising some $2.5 million, including $80,000 of his own funds. He is also the organization's budget director and became known to McGovern staffers as a tight-fisted spender. "I'm a good clamper-downer," says Kimelman. "I have a lot of one-word answers: No." Among others who bridled at Kimelman's autocratic ways was Max Palevsky, a Xerox millionaire and prime McGovern contributor. Recently he pulled out of the candidate's organization, partly over differences with Kimelman...
...button-downer boasts longer, narrower collar points, is cut more slimly and patterned more vividly than the old standbys. The new shirt is designed, in fact, to go with the fashionably tailored men's suits of recent vintage. But no one expects the button-down to become the cliche that it was in the '50s. Says Designer Bill Blass, who is among the pioneers of the button-down this time around: "I don't want men to wear only button-down shirts. It's just part of the whole fashion picture...
...sheriff of Mayberry smartens up and takes over a coed prep school in California. The series' intention, says Griffith, is "to tell it like it is for the young people while remaining palatable to older audiences." The premiere involved a student who refused to pop "uppers" and "downers" like the rest of the kids. The comic relief, provided mostly by the school's bicep-brained athletic director (Jerry Van Dyke), was a downer. As usual, Griffith came off as platitudinous but rather engaging...