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...Chicago's Milex. Prophylactics for men still account for $85 million a year in sales, led by New York's 83-year-old Julius Schmid, Inc.. Youngs Rubber Corp. and Dean Rubber Co. But Sterling Drug's Sterling-Winthrop Research Institute is testing a pill designed...
...other nonreligious reasons. Washington's Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord charges that "the church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed." In the nuclear age, suggests San Francisco's puckish Episcopal Bishop James Pike, God became "a sort of tranquilizer pill to a populace keeping a wary eye on the sword of Damocles." Others who joined churches found them not serious enough, or contemptibly unconcerned with corruption and injustice...
...Pill. Nasser's council, founded four years ago, is the pep pill responsible for much of the awakening. Its high-powered radio station, the Voice of Islam, broadcasts the message of the Koran twelve hours a day in eight languages. The council has its own coed training camps. It also provides 1,300 scholarships annually at Egyptian universities to young Moslem men and women from around the world. It sends gold-plated Korans to Afro-Asian VIPs-Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta got one recently with a friendly inscription by Nasser. It has supplied 3,000-volume libraries...
...Russian-born Dr. Arieh Rapoport, came to visit her, instead of more morphine or barbiturates he prescribed thalidomide, hopeful that it might prove to be a better sedative. He had no thought that it could have any effect on the disease. "After the first pill," says Mrs. Bursi's daughter, "mother had her first good night's sleep in weeks. Next day, she talked coherently. In a month, she was able to eat by herself. Now she eats everything-even her favorite, calf's-foot jelly...
Though supplies of thalidomide for testing as a tranquilizer-sleeping pill were called in from U.S. investigators last April, cancer researchers may still use it -certainly in male patients and women beyond child-bearing age. It is not available to physicians generally, and even the few qualified cancer investigators who can get thalidomide will probably wait for it to show results in animals before they give it to patients...