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...mother who is not willing to abort should be allowed or convined to undergo amniocentesis. If the procedure becomes very common, the discovery of a handicapped child could easily amount to an edict for abortion. The race-linkage of some defects makes members of those races understandably concerned lest amniocentesis become a potent tool of genocide in the hands of a profession dominated by white upper-class anglo-Americans...
...LAWYERS: There was a young lawyer who showed up at a revival meeting and was asked to deliver a prayer. Unprepared, he gave a prayer straight from his lawyer's heart: "Stir up much strife amongst the people, Lord," he prayed, "lest thy servant perish...
...twelve he made his acting debut in a play about fairies called The Goldfish. At 17 he had graduated from playing the "juve" and was delivering his lines with that crisp, ironic, haughty precision that an entire generation of actors subsequently learned not to imitate lest they sound like feebly envious parodists. By 20 his first frothy comedy, I'll Leave It to You, was on the boards, and at 25 he had his first smash hit on both sides of the Atlantic, The Vortex. In this play, he portrayed a neurasthenic drug-addicted son with a Hamlet-like...
...Iran, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia in 1960 to fight a reduction in prices by the oil companies, the eleven major petroleum-producing countries have increased prices 72% since 1970. Last week in Beirut they demanded further compensation to cover the recent erosion of the dollar and pound sterling. Lest the oil consumers unite against them, moreover, the OPEC conference declared ominously that such action "could have negative effects," i.e., a boycott...
...psychology owes a debt to Freud for his emphasis on the "irrational, repressed, hostile and unacceptable urges" of a man's past, he also believes that Freud's approach leaves out much that is most human. At the same time, May warns that the behaviorists must beware lest they create a totally mechanical society. "My faith is that the human being will be rediscovered," says May. With this rediscovery, he hopes, will come a new emphasis on love, creativity, music and all the other qualitative, introspective experiences...