Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your "Top of the Decade" section in MEDICINE, you note that the Pill was approved for U.S. prescription use as an oral contraceptive in 1960. You fail to mention that in the closing weeks of the decade the British government's committee on safety of drugs urged pillmakers and doctors to stop dispensing 21 of 30 available brands (the British equivalent...
...catch a plane at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, tipped an airline clerk $50 to phone a $2,000 bet to a bookie. It was altogether typical of Sober's luck that the horse lost and Internal Revenue Service agents who were following him acquired the note left with the clerk. Since Sportscaster and Hall of Fame Pitcher-Dizzy Dean introduced Sober to Dawson in 1967, the trucker has lost roughly...
Silent vigils, speeches, concerts, and special services were held in communities throughout the nation, even in areas taking no official note of the day. Many of the ceremonies carried anti-war overtones...
...reinforced by the response of Americans to the My Lai massacre in TIME'S Harris Poll on page 10. By the large majority of 65%, those who were questioned expressed the opinion that "incidents such as this are bound to happen in a war." Almost as disturbing to note are the 13% who have no opinion on My Lai. Only 22% clearly expressed moral repugnance to the idea that American soldiers may have intentionally gunned down unarmed women and children. How can such a response be explained...
...CLIVE GARCIA was photographed with his mother just before he returned to Viet Nam. He wrote a note on the back of it: "Your eyes are swollen. You've cried too much, Mom. Life itself really isn't this bad. We only have a few sad minutes, all we can do is accept and live with reality." He also told his mother that "it would happen and not to be sad." He said that he would be brought home by someone who loved him-"a grunt, Mom, a grunt like...