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Speaking last week to a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Plank stressed that the birth control pill must not be thought of as a "panacea" for the population problems of such countries as India, where the people are economically underprivileged, highly agrarian, and often illiterate...
...most lasting memento at Flushing Meadow is not to be seen. At the Westinghouse Pavilion, buried in a 50-ft. steel shaft and sealed so as to last 5,000 years, is a Time Capsule crammed full of documents and artifacts. Among them: a tranquilizer, a birth-control pill, a pack of filter cigarettes, a blue and white bikini, and photographs of Joe DiMaggio, Errol Flynn and Adolf Hitler-but not one of Robert Moses...
...time it was at the huge social-security complex on the outskirts of Baltimore, where they are negotiating with the Government to get their share of medicare. Most insurance companies now realize that medicare, far from being the disaster they once predicted, may prove to be a welcome pep pill for their industry...
...Eastman Kodak Co., casting about for an advertising slogan to sell its product, came up with "You press the button, we do the rest." The slogan worked and, with a little help from the corner druggist, cameras sold. George Eastman's success was a bitter pill for a 24-year-old photographer named Alfred Stieglitz Stieglitz was not selling a competing product; he was coveting recognition for photography, in particular, his photography, as art.
Gloomy Figures. British businessmen scoffed. "We have doubts and suspicions," growled the powerful Confederation of British Industry. "A pallid pill," said the Institute of Directors. "The missing ingredient is incentive." Wrote the Economist: "The plan talks of growth and great social reform, but it dare not set down the proposals to achieve them, not with all those foreign bankers looking on. What Labor has got now is responsibility without power, the prerogative of the cuckold down the ages." When Brown went on television to defend the plan, the Tories demanded (and got) equal time to reply...