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...School of Medicine of the University of California's San Francisco campus, Father Al Jonsen is analyzing health policy issues and the moral desirability of such technical advances as the mechanical heart. From a base in Los Angeles, Fa ther Nick Weber, 33, and two companions carom round the country in a battered station wagon giving performances of the Royal Liechtenstein One-Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus, an amiable blend of circus acts and low-key morality plays. Weber and company live a frugal, catch-as-catch-can existence, begging meals and a place to sleep wherever they stop. A Rochester...
...fronts for a narrow notion of feminism, veiled in vague generalities. The introduction may claim that the magazine is not an attempt "to celebrate, expose, or reject this sensibility." "...We wish to consider and then to test the term." But what is the standard for the test? Ther term does little more, in fact, than to gather the pieces of writing included here under its flimsy and apologetic aegis...
...blinded combat veteran (Cliff DeYoung) returns home to the proto typical family of TV sitcoms. The fa ther (Tom Aldredge) is glued to foot ball on the tube. The mother (Anne Jackson) busies herself waiting on her husband and their younger son (Alan Cauldwell), who serves as a kind of bucktoothed Greek chorus of one. To ease the pain of memory, the veteran is force-fed cliches, sleeping pills and a refrigerator full of fudge, milk and soda pop. When none of their remedies works, he is offered the only other solution the family knows -suicide...
STAFFS. Congressional committees, as well as most legislators, have inadequate staffs to compete with the Administration and what some consider a fourth branch of Government: the huge bureaucracy that nei ther the President nor Congress can control. Despite a 1946 law requiring all committees to hire only professional staff experts, many still use political pals or unskilled generalists. Minnesota's Democratic Senator Walter Mondale noted that when he held a hearing to argue against more aircraft carriers, it was a case of "myself and one college kid versus the U.S. Navy and everybody who wanted to build a carrier...
...leading ground gainer, but their attack lacks the triple-threat versatility of the Dolphins' Larry Csonka bulling up the middle, Mercury Morris sweeping the ends, and Jim Kiick popping through the gaps in be tween. Both Griese and Kilmer proved their passing prowess last week, but if ei ther is injured, the Dolphins can bring in Earl Morrall, the best relief man in foot ball, while the Redskins must go with the less reliable Sam Wyche...