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...challenger's main thrust has been to accuse Tate's administration of being "more interested in patronage and favoritism than in moving the city ahead," of turning the City of Brotherly Love into "Shakedown, U.S.A." When Specter demands that Tate name his campaign contributors-donors who, says Specter, stand to get official favors from Tate-the mayor demurs,. While Specter makes points with this strategy, Tate's arsenal contains a heavy weapon that Specter's lacks: an emotional issue of major impact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philadelphia: Search for an Heir | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

Accordingly, the CNCV drafted a statement they felt anyone who opposed the war could sign. Its main thrust was "Whereas: This war is not in the interests of either the American or Vietnamese people: Now therefore be it resolved: That the people of the City of Cambridge urge the prompt return home of American soldiers from Vietnam...

Author: By Bruce Springer, | Title: City Hall Fights Hard and Dirty to Keep Peace Resolution Off November 7 Ballot | 10/16/1967 | See Source »

...general terms, and so did Plato for every woman after 40; Roman husbands were entitled to order it. Anthropologist George Devereux has catalogued dozens of ancient methods-magical incantations, jumping from high places, applying hot coals to the abdomen. Hawaiian women fashioned stilettos representing Kupo, god of abortions, then thrust them into the uterus. Even now, Ceylonese girls brew an abortifacient by boiling a poisonous yam in cow urine or liquid dung, and then swallow the stuff for seven days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE DESPERATE DILEMMA OF ABORTION | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

...officers, who had been empowered by the HPC to accept changes in the proposal, rejected the HUC version because, said Henry Norr '68, HPC president, "the thrust of the HPC wording is that the (Gill committee should discuss increased class size, while we think they should not discuss...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: HPC, HUC Split over Who Can Alter Size of College | 10/10/1967 | See Source »

...military victory were the key to Nigerian unity, Africans could take heart. Most observers feel it's a matter of time--two months at most--until Federal armies overrun Biafra and disperse its ragged forces. The Biafrans probably postponed the end with their daring thrust into Nigeria's Midwestern Region last month; and federal forces have shown a curious unwillingness to follow up their infrequent victories...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: Nigeria's Agony | 9/30/1967 | See Source »

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