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...Gregory Pincus, who died in 1967, was the pioneer researcher for an effective birth control pill, and the donation will be made in his name...
Death takes no holidays in this ward; it is only impeded by intrusive, intensive care. As one inmate puts it: "They keep you busy here. They even wake you up to give you a sleeping pill...
...some two-thirds of American Catholic women now admit that they practice birth control. In the U.S., in fact, more than 80% of the 26.5 million married women in their fertile years now use some kind of contraceptive regularly, more than a third of them relying on the Pill to prevent pregnancy. Sterilization of both men and women is also on the increase. Abortions, once obtainable only illegally or under special circumstances, are now easier to get in many states. In the second half of 1970, doctors performed 193,500 legal abortions; by 1972 the figure had climbed...
...Invited by A. Eicoff & Co., a Chicago advertising agency, to dream up a 60-second public-service spot, the youngsters produced a stark, unadorned outcry against what they conceived to be a deadening decline in the quality of American life. When agency professionals suggested that they coat their bitter pill with a cartoon format or offer solutions to the problems they were portraying, the students flatly refused. The commercial will be aired as is in Chicago next week, and the agency hopes to distribute it nationally. "They wouldn't put any icing on the cake," says Carole Darr...
...says he can find anything a customer wants. He sells everything from a wooden Upper Volta Bobo ladel for $240 to an 18th century Americana rocking horse for $450. In typical disorder, one case holds both a small Archaic Sassanian plate for $750 and an 18th century enamel pill...