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Abortion is illegal everywhere in the U.S., but 45 states make an exception if physicians are convinced that it is necessary to save a woman's life. Some medical men interpret the laws liberally to protect not only the woman's life but also her health - and the health of her expected child. If the laws are narrowly construed, many of the therapeutic abortions now being performed in first-rate hospitals by reputable doctors are technically illegal...
...poll tax won't keep 'em from voting," Mississippi's infamous Senator Theodore Bilbo used to snort. "What keeps 'em from voting is Section 244 of the Constitution of 1890." That section stipulated that voters−Negro voters, anyway−must be able to interpret a state constitution that, as Bilbo chortled, "damn few white men and no niggers at all can explain...
...Alabama's Marengo County, a registrar estimated that two-thirds of the first 50 applicants could neither read nor write. They were enrolled. It was a far cry from the days when Negro college graduates were contemptuously rejected by ill-educated Southern registrars for imagined failure to interpret a fine constitutional point. Surprisingly, there was little outright protest against and no overt interference with last week's registration effort. On the steps of Selma's courthouse, Sheriff Clark glowered across the square at the crowds of Negroes and snarled, "I'm nauseated." Selma's Circuit...
...Indian gentleman must be able to mix a very dry martini and in the next, very dry breath interpret the intricacies of a raga (a traditional Hindu melody) played on a sitar (like a guitar). His wife must not only be pretty, but be able to frug in a sari while folding her hands in the traditional greeting of namaste. His home must be decorated in the best Western decor, but carry at least one careful Indian touch-perhaps a Mogul miniature or a divan with a brightly colored, hand-loomed bolster from the Punjab. Clubs are one British social...
...different. It is also true that both of us have had to battle against a powerful aggressor who, weapons in hand, came to fight in a place where he shouldn't have been." Malraux may have meant Japan's invasion of China, but Peking was free to interpret his words as meaning the U.S. in Korea...