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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the twelfth week a more complicated operation is required, and many Boston hospitals and abortionists refuse to perform the necessary surgery. In England, abortions are performed up to the twenty-second week, but the operation after the sixteenth week resembles a small Caesarian. Abortions in Puerto Rico (which are illegal) are generally not done after the tenth week...

Author: By Marion E. Mccollom, | Title: Abortion: An Expensive Affair | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...Antiquated abortion laws and practices in the United States must share the responsibility for the high abortion death rate with the illegal abortionists. Abortion is the third biggest racket in the United States (behind gambling and prostitution). Although some competent doctors perform illegal abortions because they are convinced the laws are unfair, the majority of abortionists are incompetent money scroungers. However, under the present legal system, a woman is forced to turn to these people if she is to retain the right to make decisions about her life. The power in the present system lies in the hands...

Author: By Marion E. Mccollom, | Title: Abortion: An Expensive Affair | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...Taylor's central characters perform their own self-analysis. Each is tremendously curious and thoughtful about what and why something is happening to him and why he reacts as he does. The reader experiences with him every nervous blush, sweat, grope, and moment of insight...

Author: By Robin V. B. davis, | Title: Along the Border More Than Mere Memory | 11/6/1969 | See Source »

...universities could easily be physically relocated. Private industry has already gone far in establishing quasi-academic institutions which directly service their needs. RAND is only the most well-known of a large number of R and D firms which secure contracts from the government of large corporations. Research is performed by men who use equipment which is largely paid for by the government. At some, but certainly not at prohibitive, expense, the government could set up its equipment in a place further removed from Harvard Yard than Mallinkrodt Hall. There are more congenial settings. The men who perform objectionable work...

Author: By Teaching FELLOW In government and Stephen Krasner, S | Title: Violence and the Reasons Against It | 11/4/1969 | See Source »

...alas, insists that they stay in separate parts of the building. Claudia and Heron ask to be married, but the father superior refuses in great heat. Claudia and Heron, likewise in great heat, awake in the night to find that the abbey has been deserted. In desperation they perform the nuptial ceremony themselves, for time grows short and the soldiers surely approach. Claudia and Heron cling to each other like the very vines as the enemy closes in on them. Neither will ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ye Olde Lonesome Road | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

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