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Laws & Mores. Despite strict anti-abortion legislation in the U.S. and the often exorbitant expense involved in getting to countries with more lenient laws, abortion statistics continue to rise yearly in a striking case of conflict between the mores of a people and their legal code. Of the estimated 1,000,000 abortions performed each year in the U.S.,* only a surprisingly small number fall into the classic category (the girl who has paid the penalty for promiscuity and wants to avoid the consequences before her parents find...
...admissions procedure next year may not be as lenient in accepting applications after the late-June deadline...
...moral was highly pertinent: kindly Nikita Khrushchev, again wrapping himself in Lenin's magic mantle, was justifying the relatively lenient treatment meted out to his own defeated rivals-former Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov-who faced only obscurity, not firing squads...
...file reaction to Gottwald's removal. The backing and filling points up one fact: the Czechs are a careful, canny and slow-moving people. Unlike neighboring Hungary, Poland or East Germany, Czechoslovakia has few outspoken malcontents and no likelihood of an uprising. The party, in return, is more lenient; the Czechs are allowed a relative cultural freedom. Western books sell briskly; J. D. Salinger is currently a favorite. Western films can be seen without stigma. In Prague, Designer Zdenka Bauer. 27, showed a collection of attractive dresses, suits and beachwear that were "an effort to follow Paris lines...
...Common Market has a trustbusting department headed by Dutch Economist Pieter VerLoren van Themaat, 45, who rejoices in the resounding title of Director General of Competition. After talking things over with him. George Nebolsine, a top New York international lawyer, concluded that "the department is not going to be lenient.'' Nebolsine also believes that it may well challenge "such very common business practices as the appointment of exclusive dealers in a foreign country, restrictions under patent and know-how licenses, joint ventures for the production of components or materials, and distribution arrangements...