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...Connecticut, it is still a misdemeanor for a doctor to advise, or a citizen to practice, birth control.* This 68-year-old blue law, a relic of Anthony Comstock's crusades, is widely disregarded, seldom enforced. But Connecticut's doctors, who object to being lawbreakers, even technically, have tried eleven times in the past 24 years to get the law repealed. Last week, as they tried once again, Connecticut medicine was shaken by one of its biggest rows in years...
...Chief relic now from the south-of-the-border influence of the scholarly House Master Clarence H. Haring '07, are the Argentine cigarettes which he freely dispenses on Monday afternoons when he and his wife extend their hospitality to House members...
...style house, "Fairholme," where a picture of Napoleon by David hangs in his room. From there, he usually goes to New York each Monday night, goes back each Thursday night. As befits a railroad baron, he always travels in his private car. His Cleveland office is a Kubla Khanish relic of the Van Sweringens. But his offices in Manhattan's Chrysler Building are small and unlisted on the building directory. He does not need a large office because "I carry the business in my head...
...propaganda which is reaching our shores in ever-increasing volume, and which is designed to persuade us that our accomplishments are negligible, that our system is intended merely to benefit the strong at the expense of the weak, and that our form of Western democracy is an outmoded relic of a decadent past...
...possible explanation for the hesitancy arises from some poorly times and ill-advised remarks by the Association's Director, Dr. Guy Snavely. The day before the meeting opened, Dr. Snavely relieved himself of the dictum that "if we have Federal aid we must have Federal domination." To that deathless relic of States' rights, he added a classic of Algeriana: "Anyone with ambition enough can go to college." With its chief executive indelibly on record, the Association faced the unhappy dilemma either of repudiating its spokesman or failing to express its own majority opinion on a vital issue. The educators choose...