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...sometimes seems that Americans live by surveys. From the degree of relief a customer should find in one pill as against another to the exact percentage of people who prefer one political candidate to his rival, a fusillade of figures is daily aimed at the U.S. Last week Raymond C. Hagel, president and chairman of the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., told the Washington Society of Investment Analysts just how sound some of those figures can be. In a survey conducted last year, hundreds of New Yorkers were shown a list of magazines and asked to name those they read regularly...
Then, in a master political stroke, Chairman Wilbur Mills proposed a sugarcoated, horse-pill-sized medical care bill containing aspects of all three plans. And last week, by a 17-8 vote, the committee approved the Mills bill. Its key provisions...
...commission members include doctors, moralists, sociologists and population experts from a dozen countries, nine from the U.S. Among them are those who favor "the pill" as a licit method of birth limitation, such as Canon Louis Janssens of the University of Louvain in Belgium, and those who oppose it, such as Monsignor George Kelly of New York's Archdiocesan Family Life Bureau. But some Catholics who want a modification of the church's position on birth control charge that the membership has been stacked in favor of the status quo. Recently, two of England's best-known...
...commission's discussions, said one member, have moved well beyond the legality of the pill to consider the larger issue "of whether or not the church should alter its stand on the whole question." He reported, that both camps were standing fast, and have summoned all kinds of experts to back up their views...
...throat and fell forward on the table. An ambulance was summoned and Farouk was placed in an oxygen tent at the hospital. Minutes later he was dead, apparently of a heart attack. Found on Farouk's body were a gold wedding ring, a cigarette lighter, a watch, a pill box initialed 'F,' a pair of dark glasses, a loaded Beretta automatic, identity pa pers, and a billfold containing $115 in Italian lire and $2,500 in U.S. bills...