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After graduating from Harvard in 1964, Ferguson spent one year as a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of Economics. He then entered the Harvard Law School, earning his L. L. D. in 1968. Ferguson is currently working for his Ph. D. in History of American Civilization at the GSAS...
...last week the outsider appeared anew. Rosenthal announced in a memorandum effective Oct. 1, the Times's new foreign editor would be none other than James L. Greenfield...
...cells shed by the embryo. For the apparently normal woman this would never be recommended. But it is a boon for the woman with a history of pregnancy mishaps, or one whose family is known to harbor inheritable defects. At Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Dr. Henry L. Nadler reported, his department has "managed" 150 pregnancies on the basis of such cell studies. In 14 cases, abortion was recommended, and in 13 cases the abortion was carried out. In the 14th, the mother of one mongoloid child said she would rather have another mongol than an abortion...
...L'Eminence Grise. It is hardly possible to overstate the treacherous confusion that Richelieu's Europe presented to any would-be diplomat. The Thirty Years' War (1618-48) turned much of the Continent into a wasteland. Alliances flickered on and off like fireflies. Richelieu did his work, too, in a time of witch burning and archaism. His very closest adviser and friend, a shrewd Capuchin named Père Joseph (for whose shadowy role the title Eminence grise seems to have been invented) was entirely obsessed, for example, with a yearning to renew the crusades against...
...outwitted himself, however, when he subsidized the warmaking of the fanatic Swedish Protestant, Gustavus Adolphus. Richelieu counted on Gustavus to harry the Austrian Hapsburgs, which he did. But the Cardinal was unable to keep Gustavus leashed, and until the Swede's death in 1632 at the battle of Lützen, he was a growing threat to France. The passionate Gustavus, as O'Connell observes, was unable to tell the difference between religion and politics; and the cerebral Richelieu, who was accustomed to making the distinction, failed to understand that trait in Gustavus...