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...from the University of Michigan. When he took over as president in 1936, he prescribed a strong tonic to make the Skokie, III., company grow. He trimmed its product line from 800 to 16 quality items. The list has since grown to 30, and now includes Enovid, a contraceptive pill whose booming international sales have also boosted the sale of other Searle products. Last year the company earned $13.8 million on sales of $56 million; it now sells in 100 countries. Last week stockholders approved the third stock split in 13 years, making a share that sold...
...Harvard medical professor who was co-developer of the first birth control pill carried his urgent plea to halt the population explosion to a Ford Hall Forum audience in Boston's Jordan Hall last night...
...course, we have to educate the audience. It is our duty. At first you give the audience a pill that tastes good. And then you give them some more pills with vitamins, but with some poison too. Very slowly you give them stronger and stronger doses...
When sex is the strongest chemical in the pill, it takes a phenomenal dose to have much effect on the shockproof Swedes-but Bergman at the moment has them reeling. His new film, Silence, has opened in Stockholm, and for the first time a sizable number of Swedish moviegoers are wondering if the dose has grown too powerful. Growling dark epithets, people are actually leaving the theater midway through the film. Others go away slowly at the end, stunned, like children retreating from a keyhole...
Corie's mama (Mildred Natwick) drops in earlier. So does Victor Velasco (Kurt Kaszner), an average Continental charmer. This sets a zany subplot in motion: Can a lonely New Jersey pill popper who sleeps on a board find enduring happiness with an ebullient Hungarian gourmet who sleeps on a rug? It takes an uproarious culinary trek to Staten Island and several draughts of ouzo, the Greek tequila, to resolve this dilemma. Meanwhile, Corie and Paul have a lallapalouzo of a spat. Corie's mother primes a happy last-act curtain with some classic advice on how to hold...