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...reincarnation as the Zhiguli, the 124 has undergone considerable modification. Among other things, it has been given a sturdier suspension system to survive Russia's potholed roads, and a number of other features, such as a battery that loses little power at 58° F. below zero and warmed door handles, to cope with the bitter cold Russian winters. As an Italian journalist in Moscow put it: "A sexy Italian maiden in a midiskirt and high heels has been sent off into the Russian taiga with boots and padded jacket for a hard day's work...
Last week a Women's Medical Center with a dozen volunteer physicians and 40 counselors opened in mid-Manhattan to perform 60 operations a day at charges of from zero to $50. With a few more such clinics, the city will be able to take care of its own residents. But the city and state will continue to be hard-pressed by the influx of nonresident patients until abortion statutes in other states are liberalized...
Unless, of course, something is done to slow this geometrical breeding. In the U.S., at least, there is evidence that while the nation is still far from achieving the ideal of zero population growth -the birth rate is still twice the death rate-the multiplication is declining. According to the Census Bureau, the ratio of children under five years old born to women in their fertile years was the lowest in March 1969 since the end of World War War II. The figure may indicate in part that more women are simply waiting longer to have children...
Modern research has now overcome that obstacle with powerful new electromagnets. Chilled to -450° F. by a jacket of liquid helium, their coils become superconductive. As the temperature approaches absolute zero ( - 459.7° F.), internal resistance to electrical currents virtually disappears. Even a slight pulse of electricity will keep currents flowing in the coils for indefinite lengths of time. Except for the electricity needed to refrigerate the helium, strong magnetic fields could thus be created in superconductors with a minimal use of power...
Georgia Governor Lester Maddox wanted to ride atop the train to prove its cargo safe. The mayor of Macon, Ga., Ronnie Thompson, has vowed to use force, if necessary, to keep it from passing through his city. A Pentagon spokesman insists that the chances of "catastrophe" are virtually zero, yet the Army is quietly stockpiling quantities of a lifesaving antidote along the proposed route. The British Foreign Office (representing the government of the Bahamas) has questioned the wisdom of the plan...