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...drastic way to practice birth control is by means of sterilization. The surgeon's knife is now being sought by increasing numbers of Americans, both men and women, who want to be sure that they will have no more babies. Few doctors or patients are willing to talk about it, but the Association for Voluntary Sterilization, Inc. estimates that such operations have been performed on at least 2,000,000 Americans...
...themselves lends credence to their testimony. Hersh, a freelance Washington journalist who has just won a Pulitzer Prize for his effort, places the number of dead at between 450 and 500. Describing the murderous mood of the U.S. troops, he writes: "A G.I. was chasing a duck with a knife; others stood around watching a G.I. slaughter a cow with a bayonet. A G.I. with an M-16 rifle fired at two young boys walking along a road. The older of the two-about seven or eight years old-fell over the first to protect him. The G.I. kept...
...University of New Mexico, dissenting students fought with "straights" over whether the flag should be lowered to half-staff to honor the Kent State dead. Three of the dissenters came away with knife wounds. One confrontation at U.C.L.A. was often something of an absurdist frolic, with students advancing on and retreating from the police?the "blue meanies"?in a sort of Keystone Kops ballet. Police would chase kids frantically past heedless couples smooching on benches. When one shift of police went off duty, the students shouted: "Manatia, pigs!" A cop would smile and wave goodbye...
...this is his." Even before Apollo 13's problems, Lovell had promised his wife and four children that this would be his last flight. "If it weren't," he said, in a reference to other astronauts awaiting space assignment, "I think I would find about 50 knife wounds in my back." But last week he failed to achieve his goal of walking on the moon and may well request to fly still another mission. Beyond that, Lovell says that he plans to stay on with NASA. Some friends, however, believe that his good looks and winning ways might...
...stood on the curb, caught on the knife edge between two unhappy and possibly hopeless worlds. Behind me was a bank window, offering joyless, useless prizes for opening an account. Across the street were the kids, ramming their way into the mad jumble of Bryant Park. Later, the militants-the YAWFs, the Progressive Labor S.D.S. wing and others-fought their way onto the platform and kept off speakers they did not approve of. If that was the future, it, too, would be a joyless prize...