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Meanwhile, the U.S. Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control in Atlanta gave most IUDs a stamp of at least limited approval. A CDC study conducted last year found lUD-related mortality (roughly 20 per million users per year) no higher than that from birth control pills, which can cause blood-clotting problems in some women. For that matter, both IUDs and pills are less risky than pregnancy itself...
...Look," says Ed Daniels, 56, an American Motors stockman, hunched over his beer in Lud and Jerry's: "This stuff is rotten, but impeachment would be worse. Let Nixon finish out his term, then throw him in jail...
Dead Space. Kaufman does not hesitate to preach what he practices, irking conventional architects. "Handsome details and elegant proportions are meaningless," he says. "No one notices them; they fade into the canyon walls." He therefore deprecates Manhattan's architectural landmarks-Lud-wig Mies van der Rohe's Seagram building and Eero Saarinen's CBS building, for example-calling them "gigantic sculptures that do nothing for the city. Look at their plazas. Dead spaces!" Their tragic flaw, he insists, is that the architects designed the ground floor to relate to the building rather than to the street, where...
...Lud, I read your verses...
Before taking that plunge, Myers and Kenison rounded up three friends to help: Adman William L. Pereira Jr., 29, son of the famed architect-planner; Lud Renick, 37, a realty and restaurant investor; and Lawyer Mark T. Gates, 30. "None of us knew what we were getting into," recalls Pereira. "At first, it didn't look too difficult. If we'd known, we probably would not have started." Sensibly, their first move was to recruit two veteran aviation consultants: Thomas Wolfe, 65, a onetime vice president of both Western and Pan American, who is now Air California...