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...former Doctor Doress, Professor Doress and all that jazz. From now on it is going to be plain, ordinary Ivy Doress working in the best way he knows how to preserve spaceship earth, the crew and passengers. I'm not a complete iconoclast. I welcome anyone with a strong commitment toward peace, without this or that hidden agenda, and with a capacity for a very difficult organizing effort to come forward and join...
...just medical, they are societal. Obstetricians do not build their practices in a vacuum, or by being mean to people. The great majority of women demand artificially doctored maternity. To rely on one's own innate ability to give birth is generally considered less safe, more painful and plain oldfashioned. Doctors have engendered this false dogma, but women have embraced it enthusiastically. It is up to mothers as well as doctors to make our way of birth simpler and more human...
...television producers on two continents and offended the artistic sensibilities of still cameramen. "Can't you get him out of that suit?" pleaded one photographer. White House aides feared that it had the whiff of the $2 window at a race track. Foreign functionaries, noting the swaths of plain blue and gray cloaking the ample figures of the other summiteers, looked politely pained when they saw Reagan's cheery plaid clashing with a red carpet or the faded elegance of Versailles...
...newspaper chain threatened two years ago to fold its longtime flagship Cleveland Press, at which E.W. Scripps launched his empire in 1878, Joseph E. Cole, 67, a Democratic Party activist and millionaire merchant, stepped in. Cole insisted that a local owner could better compete with the Newhouse-owned rival Plain Dealer to keep Cleveland from becoming a one-newspaper town. With the same confidence that had lifted him from poverty as the youngest of a peddler's eight children, Cole spent $1 million acquiring the Press and an estimated $18 million to $20 million sustaining and transforming it, launching...
...five years in prison for "leaking important state secrets." Among them: the time, place and agenda of an upcoming meeting of the plenary session of the Communist Party Central Committee. Last month two European journalists browsing in downtown Peking's stamp mar ket were startled when two plain-clothes policemen emerged from the crowd of shoppers to arrest the dealer who had just sold them a $5 stamp. The dealer had probably defied an earlier warning not to sell to foreign customers...