Word: generale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Michigan State University and the University of Notre Dame, students tried to mount demonstrations against General Electric recruiters to show solidarity with striking electrical workers. Both protests fizzled when only a handful of students (15 at Notre Dame, 13 at M.S.U.) turned out for the picket lines...
...rate among G.I.s in Viet Nam is so high that Brigadier General David Thomas, the U.S. Army's top medic in the war zone, has suggested a drastic solution: Army-run brothels. Understandably dismayed by such a proposal ("Government-sponsored moral collapse"), the weekly California Southern Baptist countered, tongue in cheek, with an even farther-out suggestion. "Perhaps," the magazine editorialized, "we ought to send into battle zones only married men whose wives can accompany them to a relatively safe zone near the battle area, and the men could spend a week on the front line and a week...
...only about 25% of them are done in hospitals. Many of the illegal abortions are performed on poor women by unlicensed practitioners under less than sanitary conditions. While the capital's private hospitals interpreted the old statute relatively freely to permit therapeutic abortions, the public institution-D.C. General Hospital-which mainly serves the poor, did very few such operations...
Gesell's decision is not likely to produce an immediate upsurge in abortions in Washington. Dr. Ernest Lowe, chief of gynecology and obstetrics at D.C. General Hospital, believes that the ultimate effect will be to make the surgery more readily available at a reasonable price. But Dr. Howard Donald, chief of staff at Columbia Hospital for Women, says: "I don't think that tomorrow morning we would say anyone could just request an abortion and have it done." Dr. Frank S. Bacon, head of the D.C. Medical Society, thinks most doctors will go slow on abortion until Congress...
Died. Iskander Mirza, 70, Pakistan's first President, whose troubled two years in office were marked by corruption, famine and near bankruptcy and ended with a military coup by General Mohammed Ayub Khan in 1958; of a heart attack; in London...