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...strategy, too, there is a major difference. Nixon obviously hopes for some Southern support. He plucked Spiro Agnew from obscurity at least partly to avoid offending Dixie. Like Nixon, Humphrey enjoyed heavy Southern support for the nomination. But he gave the South little in return. He ignored a Southern list of seven proposed candidates for the vice-presidential nomination and selected the man he considered best qualified of those willing to make the race...
Last week the L.B.J. completed the list with its first serious riot. The trouble was set off by a fistfight between two prisoners. When guards went in to break it up, the prisoners crashed out into the central compound containing the mess hall, administration buildings and the solitary-confinement cells (which are converted shipping containers). As the wooden buildings broke into flames, 100 M.P.s marched into the stockade with night sticks and tear gas. By the time the gas cleared, one prisoner was dead, his skull crushed, 23 were hospitalized, and 35 more needed treatment for lesser wounds. In addition...
Others on Humphrey's short list: Maine Senator Edmund Muskie; Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver, a Kennedy brother-in-law; New Jersey's Governor Richard Hughes; Oklahoma's Senator Fred Harris; San Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto...
Reduced Risk. Milan's Professor Carlo Sirtori agrees with Cross and adds mongolism to the list of congenital defects associated with outdated ova. The conventional Ogino-Knaus schedule for contraceptive rhythm bars intercourse from the twelfth to the 15th day of the cycle; Sirtori would prolong the ban through the 17th day. This way, says Sirtori, both the risk of an unwanted pregnancy and the possibility of a malformed baby are reduced...
...premenstrual tension or endometriosis, bleeding between periods, excessive hairiness or pimples [caused by an excess of androgenic hormones], or is excessively fat or is approaching the change of life, her doctor is morally justified in prescribing any treatment he likes. And that includes the pill." Dr. Cross's list is comprehensive enough to qualify about half the women in the world...