Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five hospitals in Cambridge, Cambridge City alone offers a gynecological clinic, and only reluctantly did the trustees permit the dispensation of contraceptive materials through the hospital. Docotrs at Cambridge City do not initiate conversation with patients on family limitation; rather the client must start the discussion and present proof of marriage. Boston Lying-In and Boston City Hospital, recognizing the reluctance of many women to discuss birth control, are more aggressive. The latter provides a post-partum session on maternal (including contraception) and child care and the former offers contraceptive information routinely in the six weeks post-partum check...
...there is no indication that things ever were any better. When they do turn to the antecedents-John Barth in The Sot-Weed Factor or William Styron in The Confessions of Nat Turner-it is only to show that America has been headed for catastrophe right from the start...
...nudging from his mother, John's writing career began at the age of eight, when he sat down at her typewriter and pecked out his first story, beginning: "The tribe of Bum-Bums looked very solemn as they sat around their cosy cave fire." Even with this early start, his writing career lagged three years behind his parallel interest in cartooning and painting: he had had a collage published in a children's magazine when he was five...
...reported the company off to its best start in history, with "at least" a 10% earnings increase for March. General Telephone & Electronics, with a net income increase of 6% had record earnings of $53.4 million...
Crimson bats, which had boomed all over the league last year, have managed scarcely a whimper this season. Only two Harvard starters are batting over .300. The pitching has been generally good, however, and in an attempt to halt the Tigers, Coach Norm Shepard will start ace Ray Peters...