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...hospitals' arbitrary rulings extend to individual cases. Dr. Robert Hall, a professor at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, wanted to abort an 18-year-old girl in Presbyterian Hospital. The hospital required that he first get parental permission, although the girl had left home. Hall is now seeking a court order to establish the rights of teenagers. A decision either way in the case, he says, will at least set a precedent. Insists Hall: "A girl who's old enough to get pregnant is old enough to have an abortion...
John Knox Press, one of the better Protestant publishing houses, was caught in the left-right crossfire within the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. The firm had to cut its publishing schedule in half this year, at least partially because of conservative dissatisfaction with its parent agency, the Church's Board of Christian Education...
...MINISTER at the funeral has a face like a photograph that did not develop properly. Everything is blurred, his nose runs into his eyes, and his mouth seems nothing but a line behind which teeth hide. He is a Presbyterian...
...Hampshire town, and proceeded to aim a lot of barbs at the bumbling British. King George's soldiers are moving from town to town, hanging well-known citizens as examples they hoped would deter Americans from further rebellion. When Dick Dudgeon, a reckless reprobate, is mistaken for a Presbyterian minister, he prevents the minister's wife from disabusing the arresting soldiers and marches off to his supposed death...
Married. Peggy Fleming, 21, ice-skating queen and U.S. gold medalist in the 1968 Winter Olympics at Grenoble, and Gregory Jenkins, 24, medical student at the University of Texas; in a Presbyterian ceremony in Los Angeles...