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That old medical-school staple, the nude girlie pictures slipped in among the anatomy slides, is gradually disappearing along with the practice of addressing classes of students as "gentlemen." Says Dr. Helen Shields, a fourth-year resident in gastroenterology at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital: "The locker-room humor that I often heard in medical school back in the late '60s is frowned upon now." Women are entering medicine in greater numbers than most other professions. Last fall nearly one-fourth of the nation's incoming medical students were women, up from 13% in 1972. Increasingly, women...
...Schools. Some whites, resigned to the inevitability of public school integration, are making plans to educate their children elsewhere. Says Helen Barrett, whose son will start school in September, "We may just go to Ireland for a couple of years." Ed King of West Roxbury has another solution. "We'll start our own schools," he says. Indeed, some white students are already attending new private schools...
...week after the new Revolutionary Government in Chi Minh City began the arduous task of rebuilding and reunifying a nation ravaged by decades of anti-colonial and civil wars. President Ford held a press conference, where UPI reporter Helen Thomas asked him to discuss the lessons of Vietnam. Ford seemed miffed by the question. "It was sad and tragic in many respects," he responded, with no apparent sense of understatement. "I think it would be unfortunate for us to rehash allegations as to individuals that might be to blame, or administrations that might be at fault...
Vance Hartke, a U.S. Senator from Indiana who describes himself as one of the first members of Congress to break with the government's Indochina policy, was less reluctant to discuss the lessons of Vietnam. Speaking on the Senate floor the same week that Ford fended off Helen Thomas's requests for conscious reflection on a war that spanned the administrations of six American presidents, Hartks said he had once felt outrage at the men who committed the United States to a war policy he said was "without political, military or moral justification." But these feelings of outrage, be said...
...Helen H. Gilbert '36, chairman of the subcommittee, said yesterday that her committee reported to the Overseers on Sunday evening...