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Among the millions of words that have been written about oral contraceptives, none have been more alarming than charges that the pill causes a wide variety of illnesses, some of them serious, and a few of them fatal. Solid statistics have been lacking, but now reliable data are being assembled about two possible major dangers...
...CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS. At Columbia University's Neurological Institute in the last year before the pill came into wide use, only two women between the ages of 20 and 40 were admitted with strokes; one was pregnant, the other case was apparently unrelated to hormone changes. Last year, Dr. Richard T. Bergeron and Dr. Ernest H. Wood report, they had nine such cases in this age range, and all but one of these patients were on the pills. Some had been taking them for years, some for only a few weeks. Dr. Monroe Cole of Wake Forest College has reported...
Today, Mr. U.S. finishes his breakfast of frozen orange juice and diet-bread toast, pops a vitamin pill into his mouth, steps into his fastback Barracuda, punches the tape deck button for swing or symphony, and heads for the freeway. The six-lane concrete strip lets him proceed at 65 m.p.h. toward his office in town-except when there are so many other cars going the same way that he can listen to all of Beethoven's Ninth. By the time he gets to the office, his wife has already called-from the pink, push-button Princess extension...
...play get satisfaction from the accomplishments of the starters. "It is the people that give meaning to the time you spend on it," says the injured Burns, who still faithfully attends every practice. All he can do is take practice snaps from Weiss and semi-manage the citrus fruit pill distribution, but he treasures the sense of belonging. This spirit, it is important to point out, extends beyond this room to the whole senior class. The players all feel cose to each other, and there are no cliques, such as hurt Harvard two seasons ago. Underclassmen are accepted...
...Timothy Leary has slipped noticeably. Surprisingly enough, one of the most ubiquitous campus speakers among show business personalities is television's square old M.C., Art Linkletter, who has hit 20 campuses in the past two years, drew 3,500 University of Minnesota students to a talk on "The Pill and the Bomb" last February, and starts a tour of the Ivy League circuit this week...