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...consider the elbowing at the most elaborate California dinner parties. "People consider it chic to arrive late," says Wallis Annenberg, stepdaughter of the celebrated curtsier. "This is the land of the grand entrance, and God forbid that the audience isn't assembled when one arrives." In a variant ploy, the guest arrives on time but then immediately asks to use the telephone for "an urgent business conference" and disappears for an hour...
...public office, have been allowed a very narrow range of acceptable behavior. A woman candidate must be neither too sexy nor too severe, too young nor too old. Her voice must be modulated into an aural approximation of the dress-for-success suit. Otherwise she will be thought - God forbid - too aggressive. She must seem tough enough to stand up to the Soviets without being tough enough to frighten Freud...
Those who seek a more effective way of purring pressure on the Afrikaner government need not look far. Last year, for example, bills were introduced in Congress, and passed the House of Representatives to mandate fair labor Practices, limit bank loans, impsose export controls, and forbid all new American investment in South Africans. Whatever one may think of these bills, those who favor divestment must concede that such legislation would be a vastly more effective means of achieving their objective. Nevertheless I have not observed substantial numbers of persons on this campus working actively for the passage of these measures...
...hardly the sort of patented Graham "crusade" that so many nations of the world have witnessed. No billboards beckoned audiences, no hippodromes were booked. But in Leningrad, at least, he got permission to put up loudspeakers for overflow crowds, despite Soviet laws that forbid any evangelism outside church walls. Inside the Leningrad Baptist hall, every inch of pew and aisle space was packed by the 2,000 worshipers, including a healthy number of teenagers. Two participants said they had traveled 2,000 miles from Central Asia for the event. Outside, dozens of people listened to Graham on the loudspeakers while...
...vitro fertilization (IVF) now accounts for about 100 babies in the U.S., but there are virtually no new laws to deal with this method of conception. In the wake of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, however, many states passed laws forbidding or limiting "experimentation" with fetuses. Of the 25 such state laws, eleven specifically apply to embryos; doctors in some of these states fear that they might be prosecuted for carrying out the IVF, particularly if the technique fails, as it does about four times out of five. And six states have laws that seem to forbid...