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...become the center of an anguished controversy over her right to life-or death (TIME, Nov. 24 et ante). Described by her consulting doctors as being in "a vegetative state," Quinlan is breathing with the aid of a respirator, and her brain continues to send out the faintest of signals. A Morris County, N.J., court denied her adoptive parents' petition for the right to cut off the respirator that keeps Karen alive. Last week the Quinlans filed their first written arguments in what will probably be a long appeals process. Even as they were doing so, the case took...
Several second- and third-year Architecture students, who asked to remain anonymous, all expressed their surprise at the news. One said he had not had the "faintest idea" that Anselevicius would resign...
There was not the faintest hope that Saigon could yet reverse the tide of the battle; the military situation in favor of the Communists was unquestionably irreversible. Nor was there any chance that the U.S. might intervene to prevent a Communist takeover. After more than two decades of various degrees of American involvement in Viet Nam, President Ford last week declared with utter finality that for the U.S., the war was over. A massive Communist force, which had closed in on Saigon from all sides with staggering speed, lay waiting after abruptly halting its advance. Unmistakably, the battlefield lull meant...
...states, the Boston conviction could result in an increase in the cost of abortions. To avoid malpractice suits, hospitals may well have extra personnel and life-support equipment standing by during second-trimester abortions (a practice already required in New York State). If the aborted fetus shows even the faintest signs of life, more obstetricians will use the equipment to try to keep it alive-despite the great odds against success...
...Edginess. Probably it is-but barely, since the relationship that develops among the trio is predictable to anyone having the faintest familiarity with road pictures. Rafferty and Mac become transient lovers, the better to serve as surrogate parents for Frisbee, thus buffing some of the raw edginess off her personality. After a while Mac wanders off with a bandleader, the cops return the kid to an orphanage, and Rafferty rescues her so that they can once more set forth on the road to nowhere...