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...excellent Essay "On Teaching Children About Sex" [June 9] leaves out one important point, the responsibility of every potential parent to the "innocent conceptus." Let there be taught a bill of rights for every newborn child: the right 1) to be legitimate; 2) to inherit from both parents a genetic endowment of reasonably good mental and physical health; 3) to be nourished in the uterus by a mother who has not had a damaging illness such as rubella in early pregnancy or taken damaging drugs; 4) to be fed, clothed and protected from birth through adolescence; 5) to be wanted...
...this, starting in 1962, came to more than $3,000,000. But why not? Though Ernest Medders, 57, was only a $50-a-week mechanic's helper, barely able to feed his wife Margaret and ten children, he told folks that he was about to inherit an oilfield worth $500 million. So everybody lent him money: bankers, merchants, even a religious order called the Poor Sisters of St. Francis, which went for $1,900,000. It all came to an end, alas, two months ago, when the money ran out and the Medderses admitted that there was no inheritance...
...property, his marriage is dissolved, and his children may be adopted without his consent. No matter if he is later rehabilitated and paroled-he is "civilly dead." In many states, felony results in permanent loss of the right to vote, to sue, to enter contracts, to transfer or inherit property, to hold public office, to testify, to serve as a juror and to take civil service examinations. Even after he pays his debt to society, a felon may be barred for life from all sorts of positions requiring a license or unsullied citizenship-doctor, architect, soldier, barber, druggist, liquor salesman...
...authorities on wall aphorisms is Robert Beckwith, a Columbia University student who conducts a monthly radio show dedicated to the art. His authentic collection includes: "Lock up McNamara and throw away the Ky," "Jean-Paul Sartre saves Green Stamps," and "The meek shall inherit the earth-they are too weak to refuse...
...hybridizing with the new languages of symbolic communication. John Hersey's finest book, his seven novels notwithstanding, is still Hiroshima. Truman Capote freezes a murderous poetry into In Cold Blood. Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us and Lewis Mumford's The City in History inherit the grace and freedom of the novel...