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Those favorite sons who lived with him during his last exile in Athens caused him severe problems: flitting about town in their $25,000 Maseratis, they were soon involved in eight major auto accidents that caused two deaths. Saud paid for all damages, but the Greeks were not appeased. The King then threatened to give his sons camels to ride instead of Maseratis but finally settled for assigning chauffeurs to the boys' cars...
...develops, is that too few Britons are getting legal abortions under the National Health Service, which has too few gynecological surgeons and hospitals with enough ob-stetrics-gynecology beds to satisfy the rising demand. Previously, each year produced about 10,000 legal or Bourne rule abortions. In the first eight months under the new law there were 22,256, and it is expected that the total for the first twelve months will go to at least 35,000, possibly to 50,000. Even though as many as 15,000 of these operations this year may be performed in private hospitals...
...Heights, N.Y., there was little doubt that Paul would be involved in new and unfamiliar art. His father, Poet Louis Zukofsky, saw to that. Paul started on the violin at age four. After a year of study with Ivan Galamian (TIME, Dec. 6), Paul made his professional debut at eight with the New Haven Symphony. Meanwhile, his parents had stopped sending their prodigy to school after the first grade, partly because they felt they could do a better job tutoring him themselves. They did. At 13, Paul won a New York City high school equivalency diploma. At 14, he entered...
...least that was what was supposed to happen. Once the first of eight twelve-minute periods got going, however, the action quickly developed into a free-for-all. Whirling around the track at 30 m.p.h., the skaters shoved, tripped and slugged one another with abandon. The Braves' Ronnie Robinson, Sugar Ray's son and the villain on the current tour, repeatedly locked his arm around an opponent's head and then flipped seat-first onto the track, apparently crunching the noggin under his bottom. He also excelled at kicking rivals in the mouth with his skates...
Many other makers of conglomerates have joined Miller, Bluhdorn and Ling in that elite group of American businessmen who have boosted their sales to more than $1 billion a year. Henry E. Singleton, a Ph.D. from M.I.T., has built Los Angeles' Teledyne Co. into a $1 billion conglomerate in eight years by moving into metals, electronics and defense systems...