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...SYRIA had been promised $193 million from the Communist bloc, $150 million from Russia alone. But all but $15 million of that was proffered prior to the nation's fling at union with Egypt from 1958 to 1961. The satellites built a number of small projects: cement plants, sugar refineries, a grain elevator and an airfield. But the Russians have been foot-dragging on their own big projects for two chemical factories and a railroad as Syria's manifest political instability (18 governments in 15 years) dawned on them, and completion of the Russian projects is still years...
Last week, without prior announcement to the staff, and just six weeks past Wally's 75th birthday, the parents of the Digest surrendered the month-to-month care of their creation to other hands...
...prescription: amend the law to permit "therapeutic abortion where there is a substantial risk that the continuance of pregnancy would gravely impair the physical or mental health of the mother, or that the child would be born with grave physical or mental defects." As safeguards, the academy would require prior approval of an operation by a committee of hospital doctors, and the abortion would have to be done by a licensed physician under the usual safe, sterile conditions in a hospital...
Keats and Shelley were Miss Steele's particular interests, and her studies of them were widely recognized. For a dozen years prior to her death, she was one of the directors of the Keats-Shelley Association of America and chairman of the editorial board of the "Keats-Shelley Journal...
Shrout's time of 2:03:5 erased the old record of 2:03:3, set by Bob Kaufmann in 1961. The new record is all the more remarkable because Shrout, besides being a freshman, had not competed in the medley for two years prior to this winter...