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...able to give birth to a legitimate child. So I'm trapped. There's nowhere to turn. If I can't get an abortion legally and decently, I'll go out of my mind." The glib lay phrase "go out of my mind" by itself would not have im-pressed the psychiatrist, but in this case he was convinced that pregnancy and childbirth might be enough to precipitate severe mental illness...
Every year since 1893, U.S. businessmen and farmers have sold enough goods overseas to take in more money than the nation has paid for its im ports. That trade surplus has long been the foundation of U.S. global economic power. Over the past two decades, it has amounted to $79 billion, greatly diminishing the chronic balance of pay ments deficits caused by foreign aid and investment, overseas tourist traffic and military spending...
Structural Reform? As the Pope jetted back to .Rome, his prescription for progress in Latin America probably satisfied neither the church's radicals nor its reactionaries. Conservative Latin Americans were pleased by the Pontiff's condemnation of violence. Gua temala's right-wing newspaper, El Im-parcial, praised Paul's words on the subject as "particularly opportune" and expressed the hope that they would "contribute to the Latin American people's growing resistance to ideological struggle." The attitude of the upper class to drastic social reform was best reflected in Bogota's leading "liberal...
Florida's newest menace is an im probable creature called Clarias bat-rachus, the Asian walking catfish...
...myth. Ebullient and extroverted, a wisecracking four-letter man who worries only about his weight ("Five foot seven-and-a-half is a little short for 180 Ibs."), Lee is one of the most colorful champions golf has produced. "The only time I stop yakking," he says, "is when Im asleep. I even had to quit smoking on the golf course because I nearly choked to death while I was talking." After he won last week's Open at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, N.Y., with a 275 that tied Jack Nicklaus' record, somebody asked Trevino what...