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...birth-control pills running an increased risk of developing cancer? Doctors at last week's A.M.A. meeting had a double reason for supplying answers. Many of them have been prescribing the pills for years, and it was an A.M.A. publication that unintentionally started the latest cancer scare. The consensus was more than reassuring: women who take oral contraceptives do not incur any added risk of cancer, said the experts, and there are even glimmers of hopeful though preliminary evidence that the pills may actually be protective against some forms of the disease...
...thing, the Great Moderator. Said he: "It is one of the great tasks of political leadership to make our people aware that they share a fundamental unity of interest, purpose and belief. On the ba sis of this unity, I intend to try and achieve a broad national consensus which can end obstruction and paralysis and liberate the energies of the nation for the work of the future...
Students know surprisingly little about the Study Center. Easily two thirds of the girls questioned last week in an informal poll had never seen the model or the plans for the building. There was a strong consensus, though, that Radcliffe Library is "musty and depressing," and most students agreed they would use a modern, well-equipped library much more. The main advantage, most of those questioned agreed, would be its closeness to the dorms...
...psychodrama stage. Predictably, Judge Brown refused. Moreno also had asked former Defense Counsel Melvin Belli to re-enact his own part. Belli accepted, then failed to show. But every role had volunteers, and though members of the audience who sat as a mock jury took no vote, their consensus was plain: if the Dallas jury box had been packed with psychiatrists, Ruby would have been found "insane...
Perhaps desolate losers may find consolation in the fact that the elders' decision was not unanimous. Clark R. Chapman '66 and Robert E. Olsen '66 were pronounced victorious only by a consensus of twenty-three judges. There were two dissenting votes...