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...most single-minded and conservative of the three is the work of a modern Thomistic philosopher, Georgetown University's Germain Grisez. His hefty book, Abortion: The Myths, the Realities, and the Arguments (Corpus, $12.50; paperback, $6.95), is chiefly valuable as a contemporary exposition of the traditional Roman Catholic stand against all abortions. Grisez concedes only that the law need not forbid abortion in the classic case of saving a mother's life (even the strictest U.S. laws have generally allowed that exception) and possibly in a pregnancy due to rape. Where liberalization is inevitable, he suggests that legislators...
...long ago found a secret printing press to publish about 5,000 copies. On publication day, Sartre and a few friends (including Film Directors Jean-Luc Godard and Louis Malle, and his longtime companion, Simone de Beauvoir) pick up the papers, transport them to a side street near St.-Germain-des-Prés, and begin to peddle them. Then the police arrest everyone giving away, selling or reading the paper. Everyone, that is, except prominent people and, of course, Sartre and De Beauvoir, who stay on to deliver diatribes about the rape of press freedom...
Anticipating trouble, the government mobilized more than 10,000 police in Paris alone. When the protests began, they measured up to neither the Maoists' fondest dreams nor the government's worst nightmares. But they were bad enough to litter the Latin Quarter and Saint-Germain areas of Paris with bricks, glass, smoldering autos and wrecked shops. At the same time, the unrest spread to Marseille, where leftist students, demonstrating at a factory, battled police. In Rouen, four girl students were injured when an explosion shook one of the university dormitories...
...addition to dominating the intercollegiate tournament, Nayar also won the national title, the Canadian Championship, and several others in India, his native country. He was the first collegian to capture the U.S. crown since Germain Glidden '36 did so 33 years ago. In this three varsity seasons, captain Nayar lost only one match against a college opponent...
...life-style. A cardiac case from childhood, Vian decided to ignore his illness with a vengeance. He was a jazz musician, a composer, an engineer, an actor and a playwright as well as a novelist. Friend of writers like Sartre and Ionesco, habitué of the caves of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Vian was generally considered the prince of the enfants terribles of French existentialism. His death in 1959 at the age of 38 was sudden, but it could hardly be called unexpected. While he was alive, the only one of his books that sold was a semi...