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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is what investigators from the Better Government Association and a team of Chicago Sun-Times reporters headed by Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick discovered after a five-month undercover probe of six of the city's 13 legal abortion clinics. Two of the clinics performed admirably, the investigators say, but four others, which together do one out of every three abortions in the Chicago area, are assembly-line outfits concerned only with making money...
Among the alarming conditions reported in the Sun-Times...
...wiping up blood with wet tissues. One doctor, Arnold Bickham of the Water Tower Reproductive Center, went from one abortion to the next without washing his hands or donning sterile gloves. Another doctor, Carlos Baldoceda of Biogenetics Ltd., performed an abortion while a nurse gave him what the Sun-Times described as a "sensual massage," and on another occasion did several procedures after drinking champagne at a clinic party...
...home in Princeton, N.J., in 1953, the meeting, he says, "changed my life." Einstein, he recalls, "appeared at the head of a staircase with the setting sun to his left, his hair glowing like a halo. His head was so large, his body seemed to hang from it like a spiral nebula." The great man agreed to pose for a sculpture, a project Berks has worked on ever since. "I was overwhelmed by the sweetness, yet penetrating intellect of the man. He treated everyone the same, whether child or king," recalls Berks, who has also sculpted busts of John...
...certain amount of the Baldrige Vanderbilt is so obvious that it amounts to instructing people when to come in out of the rain. A section on going to the beach, for example, solemnly counsels the reader to take along food and drinks, "sun protection devices" and towels. When swimming one should never wave at someone on the shore "because the lifeguards may think you are calling for help and spring into action." Baldrige laughingly admits that much of this advice is elementary, but, "of course, it is possible that people might come to the ocean from Nebraska [Baldrige's home...