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...what is most distressing to the protesting doctors is the fact that some of their colleagues are making a lot of money out of abortions in London's private Harley Street hospitals and suburban nursing homes. For that, no effective remedy is in sight. One opponent of the present law wants to amend it by imposing a six-month residence requirement to quash the jet-set trade, but no amendment can take effect for three years...
Where? Officer Candidate Schools could be expanded to take up the slack; in its present form, though, OCS is basically a cram course, and the graduates show it. Only the Marine Corps, which shuns ROTC, is currently satisfied with turning collegians into officers solely at OCS bases and summer camps. For other branches, the service academies would have to be enlarged enormously. West Point, for example, will turn out only 750 second lieutenants this year, v. the 17,000 second lieutenants who will graduate from Army ROTC...
...full" federal investigation of whether the disorders are part of a nationwide plan. New York's Nelson Rockefeller insisted that disturbances should be handled at the state level without federal intervention where possible. Meantime, Father Hesburgh wrote Agnew urging a Governmental hands-off policy for the present...
Reasonable Penguins. Undoubtedly the happiest buyer at last week's Parke-Bernet sale was a Manhattan dealer named Eric Shrubsole, who started his bidding day by purchasing a silver Victorian penguin for $325 ("a nice stocking present"), a delectable little James II chocolate pot with a sinuous profile probably based on an Oriental vase ($7,500), a George II silver caster ($1,100) and a James II silver lighthouse caster...
...seen a tankard like this in the 40 years I've been in the business. I saw it when it sold at the Hearst collection, but I didn't have the $1,400 then. Ha, but today I do have the $29,000." Ha, indeed. In the present state of demand, he will undoubtedly soon have his $29,000 right back again-plus a handsome and justifiable profit for his acumen...