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Pain is also having a thumb almost wrenched out in rodeo competition. His bandaged fist parries the air, occasionally landing a light jab on the nearest arm or ribs. At Aqueduct, guys who know him from somewhere keep coming up for bouts of camaraderie. Jimmy loves it. Unlike Lauren Bacall, he will never be stumped to think of a friend who is not famous. "I have friends from 15 years - guys I played ball with...
Chief bench-warmer and ex-Indy sports editor David Smith was absent from the contest. Although not confirmed, rumors claim that the hockey writer was still trying to thumb back from St. Louis where he watched the Harvard icemen dance with grandeur and then leave him behind. He was last seen sitting under the soaring arch in St. Louis next to the Mississippi...
...Southeast"-or BAWS. It goes on now like HUD or the FPC resisting, right down to the desperate end, efforts to change it or end it. The Ford Administration seems overpowered by the momentum of the thing, a familiar condition of institutional Washington. It is a rule of thumb that any program that survives ten years is permanent. Our longest war has taken on this characteristic...
...rule of thumb will be to hold public hearings whenever we can and closed hearings whenever we must. Charges concerning illegal operations against American citizens should be publicly discussed and any unlawful action should be revealed. On the other hand, there are some areas that must be handled in executive session, such as covert operations abroad, the revelation of which would injure our relations with foreign governments or impair sources of information or imperil agents in the field...
That limit would seem to provide obstetricians with an ample safety margin. Although an 18-week fetus (see cut) looks like a baby and can suck its thumb, the chance of survival for any fetus less than 24 weeks old and weighing an average 630 gm. (about 1% Ibs.) is slim. (Edelin's abortion produced a fetus of 600 gm. after a gestation that he had estimated at about 20 weeks.) Between 24 and 28 weeks is a gray zone in which few fetuses attain the weight or organ development needed to survive outside the womb. It is only...