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...board suggested that: 1) a mother who bears a third illegitimate child should be deemed "morally depraved" and required to hand the child over to the state; 2) the mother of an illegitimate child must name the child's father within six months after giving birth, or relinquish the child; and 3) girls 16 and under who bear an illegitimate child could be considered "incapable of providing support" and lose the baby after a court hearing. Said San Francisco Representative John Burton: "What's easier to attack than illegitimate children...
...with her to Mexico? With about the profundity of a television script-Chayefsky is a veteran TV writer-Hospital examines such Pressing Issues of Modern Times. The hospital is in the midst of a community whose members are parading around outside holding unconvincing placards and demanding that the hospital relinquish its development land to the people; there's an abortion which provides contemporary color but gives no hint of its potentially controversial aspects; Scott mentions having thrown his "long-haired hippie son" out of the house but hardly seems to recognize in Diana Rigg a member of the same generation...
...that the review process would begin anew if a committee could not be formed from a preferential list of 20 names. But the GSD abrogated these rights previously guaranteed, and then had the audacity to present Hartman with a five-man committee with the expectation that he would readily relinquish his rights. Hartman called their conduct a new "idiocy." We agree...
...once said, "A musical note is worth a thousand words." This exact evaluation may be a little off because of the Oriental yen for the arts, but with the President's price feeze, the exchange rate must be roughly equivalent. In any case, the sports board has decided to relinquish-this-space to the editorial page for some in depth analysis of the powers behind the football world: The battles of the bands...
...Sebastian, Spain's summer capital. Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Chief of State, was vacationing on his yacht at Vigo and had summoned Lopez Bravo to discuss a restoration of the monarchy after a lapse of 40 years. The step is part of Franco's deliberate attempt to relinquish gradually his absolute powers. In July 1969, as the first move in that direction, the Caudillo named Juan Carlos to be Prince of Spain. Next, Franco overhauled the Spanish Cabinet, substituting younger, more moderate personalities for the conservative ministers who in many cases were identified with the Spanish Civil War. Then...