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...pontifical birth-control commission, which recommended by a 4-to-1 majority that the church relax its traditional opposition to contraception (TIME, April 28, 1967). In its final form, the Pope's pronouncement would have outlawed any mechanical or chemical form of birth control, including the Pill. In effect, it would have held the church to the judgment on procreation handed down by Pope Pius XI in 1930-that "any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offense against...
Miss a day with the conventional birth control pill and maternity may result. Researchers-not to mention users-have long hoped for something with a longer-lasting effect. Now the Upjohn Co. believes that its drug Depo-Provera may be the answer. It has been used for treatment of uterine disorders, but one of its side effects proved to be infertility lasting a year or more. This is understandable, since the drug's basic ingredient is a synthetic female hormone that is also the main component of Upjohn's birth control pills. Last week the company announced that...
...single dose of Depo-Provera, injected into a deep muscle, will render a woman infertile for as long as three months. In conventional pill form, the drug is effective for short terms (women take the pills for 20 days, then stop to permit menstruation). In its injection form, the drug's effect is greatly prolonged by the muscle's slow release of the chemical...
...Humphrey. "One afternoon in a jet over Nebraska, I suffered a strange chest seizure after eating a hamburger," he remembers. "I was in agony all through an interview with the Vice President." Ex-pharmacist Humphrey rushed to his medicine chest in the tail of the plane and produced a pill. "Take this," he said. "It will relax the spasm in your esophageal tract." It did. Later, Lamont's doctor confirmed the Humphrey diagnosis...
...during Derby week. But Dancer's Image is a grey, an unusual color among thoroughbreds. He also is 1,050 Ibs. of fighting muscle; anybody blind enough to invade his stall by mistake would be taking his life in his hands-especially if he tried to force a pill down the horse's throat...