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...believe I have a solution to most of the population explosion [Jan. 11]. It is taken by husbands 20 minutes before retiring, is inexpensive, readily available, and to my knowledge, conflicts with no religious restrictions. It is a sleeping pill...
...tranquilizers -which cost up to six times as much in the U.S. as in foreign countries. One Miltown tablet costs only .7? to make, testified Carter President Henry Hoyt, but it sells to druggists for 3.3? and retails for about a dime. Why the wide spread? Into every pill, replied Hoyt, Carter figures research costs of .4?, promotion costs of 1?, profit of 1.2?. As for promotion, Carter has a blue-ribbon mailing list of 92,000 doctors, figures it spends 18? a week on each one to push Miltown; the industry as a whole spends much more to promote...
...would be interesting to see the picture were every couple required to take an oral fertility pill in order to bear children...
Words v. Deeds. So far, birth control campaigns, even when given government support (as in India), have had a hard time of it. Birth control advocates and research scientists look ahead to "the pill" -the still-undiscovered oral contraceptive cheap enough to suit the pocketbooks of impoverished Latinos, Asians and Africans and simple enough to be understood by all. Resistance to the idea of birth control is often a complex of emotional, moral, philosophical and economic attitudes. In Latin America, the Philippines, South Viet Nam and Ceylon, the Roman Catholic prohibition of contraception is felt. India still echoes...
...stationed near the coast were pulled back on June 5. The only daylight action of the Luftwaffe on D-day was one two-plane air strike. For twelve hours, Jodl refused to release two Panzer divisions that might have been thrown in, and feared to interrupt Hitler's pill-drugged sleep with news of the invasion until the official Allied communique. Wakened in the forenoon of June 6, Hitler ranted, as always, at his generals, and clung to the illusion that the invasion was another Dieppe-style raid...