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...population was arrested last year on various charges. The rate of personal crimes of violence rose almost 18% in 1968. In San Francisco alone, there have been more than 109 homicides so far this year; forcible rape in September of this year has risen 101% over September 1968: 63 v...
Unhappily, he is contained in a clumsily updated block off the old Chips. It is no longer the Great War but World War II that punctuates the scholastic calendar, Chips' missus (Petula Clark) becomes the victim not of childbirth but of a V-l rocket. Still, the boys are the same deferential crew; the school is ivied and kind, an eon removed from the kind of place Orwell considered "a tightrope over a cesspool." The only instance of sadism, in fact, is the disastrous decision to make Goodbye, Mr. Chips a musical. As a result, Leslie Bricusse was given...
...first directorial assignment, Herbert Ross lights Clark's songs as if she were doing a turn on This Is Tom Jones, and tends to place his camera at jarring angles. He even mounts it on the V-l, making the viewer feel like a patient of Dr. Strangslove. No matter. It is one of the graces of group art that if any one can destroy a project, so any one can save it. Mr. Chips is barely enough because Mr. O'Toole is more than enough...
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...word "unlawful" implies that there is such a thing as a lawful abortion, and recent court cases have established the criteria determining the legality of such operations. In the case of Commonwealt v. Brunelle, 1961, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled, "We have held that a physician is justified in effecting an abortion where he has exercised his skill and judgment in the honest belief that his acts were necessary to save the woman from great peril to her life or health...