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...revolution that Chile's President has been pressing since his inauguration a year ago last week has no parallel in Latin America or anywhere else. As Latin America's first and only freely elected Marxist President, he plans to steer his country of nearly 10 million into "total, scientific Marxist socialism" without shooting, without shoving, and even without very much shouting. If he succeeds, it will be largely because of Chile's strong democratic traditions. As long as Allende governs under the law, Chile's armed forces are not likely to move against...
...parallel path to the future could be the enactment of a farsighted bill that has been proposed for the last two years by Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff. Although it has twice been defeated, on this year's vote it was supported by every potential Democratic presidential nominee in the Senate. After four years of pilot testing and planning, Ribicoff's plan would give every metropolitan area?North or South?a deadline of ten years to make minority representation in each of its schools equal to at least half the percentage of minority-group students in the area...
...photographs that survive from his last years, Piet Mondrian's own head began to verge on geometrical abstraction. The domed skull had its remaining hair brushed flat, each strand meticulously parallel to its neighbor; the two neat creases on the pale forehead; the paired circles of his spectacle frames, and the thin mouth joined with utmost precision to his beak of a nose by two engraved lines. It was the face of no compromise-austere and possessed by a forbidding moral rectitude. No artist ever looked more like his own work...
Phillips was ambitious to climb the corruption ladder-almost a parallel career within the department. After once booking a man who had got into a fight, Phillips said that another cop asked him to forget the whole thing for $300. Phillips obliged. When he was promoted to plainclothesman, after three years on the force, he was given a $1,000 payoff on his first day on the job. His partners gave him some fatherly advice: "You're new here and it would look good for you if you gave the boss a piece of the action." So Phillips handed...
...three researchers-Drs. Ellis Cohen and J. Weldon Bellville and Biostatistician Byron Brown-conducted parallel studies on two groups of women who serve in hospitals. The first study reviewed the miscarriage rates of 159 nurses. Among the 67 operating-room nurses queried, 29.7% of the pregnancies occurring over a five-year period ended in miscarriage; among the 92 nurses assigned elsewhere in the hospital, only 8.8% of pregnancies ended in spontaneous abortion. The second study involved 131 women physicians, 50 of them anaesthesiologists, the rest used as a control group. Only 10% of the pregnancies that occurred in the control...