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Down to a Fig Leaf. One reason for the protests was Sharef's poor timing. Just as he spoke, the drive toward a Middle East peace settlement seemed to be gaining momentum. U.N. Mediator Gunnar Jarring, criticized for acting like a "mailman" whose only role was to shunt messages back and forth, began to ask probing questions of Egypt and Israel. Among them: Would Israel withdraw from Sinai in exchange for a formal peace treaty? Would Egypt recognize Israel in return for withdrawal? Egypt's President Anwar Sadat responded to Jarring's overtures by promising...
Memorial's Dr. Maurice Shils devised a fluid diet that could supply all the protein, vitamins, minerals and carbohydrates that the body needs. A surgeon installed a plastic shunt between an artery and vein in Mrs. Smith's leg. At home, three times a day, she connected this plastic tube to a bottle of Shils' super-soup. Each such "meal" took three hours...
...many Catholic and Orthodox Jewish physicians will have nothing to do with abortions. To them the law, like the procedure, is anathema. But a surprising number of nonsectarian "voluntary" hospitals (private but nonprofit) are imposing restrictions that are generally tighter than the law requires. The effect is to shunt many cases to "private" (meaning for profit) hospitals, which are making a financial killing as high-class abortion mills, while the poor, who are most in need of cheap, safe operations, are getting the least benefit from...
...been designed by Massachusetts' coordinate boarding schools, Mount Hermon (boys) and Northfield (girls). The schools have already earmarked 20% of their operating budget for scholarship aid to almost half their students. Unwilling to "shunt the middle-income family aside," they have now allocated $110,000 (to be quadrupled in four years) for longterm, low-interest (5%) loans to families with yearly incomes of $15,000 to $20,000. Borrowers will not be obliged to start repayment until their children finish college or graduate school. Help is becoming available, says Dr. Howard L. Jones, head of the schools' joint...
...rehearsing, they utilized oppression by numbers, deploying hordes of little men in tight black suits who had no function other than being more people, adding support to whatever the authorities said and subtracting courage from whatever impulses of defiance the dazed team members could muster. The one assigned to shunt us from room to room had just the faintest suggestion of eyes beneath foot-thick glasses with huge black plastic frames. The curl of his lips when he yanked Dave Gordon half-dressed from the dressing room for the "dress rehearsal" was enough to grow boils on your heart. "Every...