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Even test-tube babies, once the stuff of science fiction, are now not only possible, but probable. Dr. Landrum Shettles of Columbia University and Dr. Daniele Petrucci of Bologna, Italy, have shown that considerable growth is possible in test tubes. Shettles has kept fertilized ova growing for six days, the point at which they would normally attach themselves to the lining of the uterus. Petrucci kept a fertilized egg alive and growing for nearly two months...
...evidence of the growing disaffection of congressional hawks, Nixon aides sent copies of antiwar speeches by two Georgia Representatives to the President at the Western White House in San Clemente. Both Democrats John J. Flynt and Phil M. Landrum reversed their consistent support of the Administration on the war and voted against an extension of the draft (which nonetheless passed 293 to 99). Flynt told a hushed House: "My conscience will not let me vote to continue to conscript young Americans to fight a war which most Americans do not want and a war which the U.S. Government apparently lacks...
...controls to wages and a vague procedure with respect to profits and prices." Privately, union leaders were somewhat more conciliatory, offering to give the plan a fair trial. Many labor chiefs are embarrassed at some of the extravagant pay increases won by headstrong local union leaders, but under the Landrum-Griffin Act they have little power to intervene. Their publicly stated indignation at Nixon's plan is partly a gesture intended to show militant members that they put up a fight...
...union's general counsel, Edward Carey, scoffed at the charges as "minuscule." Actually, they constitute a serious and unusual action against a union by the Government. Since passage of the Landrum-Griffin Act in 1959, only three new elections have been ordered in international unions for violations as defined by that...
First, business must arouse anti-union feeling among the public. "Before we can take action to introduce legislation seeking major labor law reform," said an NAM vice-president, "it is necessary to create the kind of favorable public climate which resulted in the Taft-Hartley and Landrum-Griffin Acts." According to plan, the public support and efforts of Congressional conservatives will push through the Congress a bill to abolish the Labor Board, which a Republican President will then sign into...