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...friend-of-the-court brief is directed toward two cases to be heard when the court reconvenes this fall. In each case, federal appeals courts had struck down state laws that regulated abortion and imposed constraints on both women and doctors who were contemplating the procedure. The Administration brief holds that states do have the right to control abortion, a persistent contention of right to-lifers, and that there is no explicit constitutional right to abortion...
...called Oppie ahead of time to explain what was going on. And while we were negotiating, a guy from the lab grabbed the films and went to L.A. with 'em, 'cause that was the only place in the country where they could be processed. It turned out we really struck gold with those pictures. We got it. After that we settled the business, and gave copies to Groves. When the war was over, Oppie gave me the originals, and I'd let people...
Today Agnew is glad to see a mutual understanding between the soldiers and the physicists. He is annoyed by those of his former colleagues at Los Alamos who believe that science struck a perilous bargain with the military during the war. That was the thrust of Rabi's reunion speech: "We gave away the power to people who didn't understand it and were not grown up enough and responsible enough to realize what they had." Rabi's speech "really irritated me," says Agnew, who was at that same reunion and whose own speech declared that the Japanese "bloody well...
...physical vigor is the least part of the morning's display. A visitor is struck more by his determined spirit. Ronald Reagan is marching on. Cancer has been found and excised, and he believes in mind and heart that he has been cleansed of the disease. There is no crack in the armor. At no time in 34 minutes of conversation does a shadow cross his eyes. The words mortality and cancer come quietly and without theatrics...
...Herrmann struck out five of the first nine hitters he faced and cruised through the first four innings...