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...going to the press conference when Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman blows his stack at the Republicans, and he blames his ferocity on his breakfast pill: "What do you call them-a unipill? or univac...
Finally Orville wound down, and color began returning to his cheeks. A reporter tried to break the tension. "Is this," he asked lightly, "the result of a vitamin shot this morning?" Said Freeman: "I did have a-what do you call them, a unipill? or univac?-vitamin pill at breakfast. Maybe that's it." Maybe it was, but it seemed more likely that it was just the bitter pill of being the current custodian of the scandalous U.S. farm mess...
...pill users who have become pregnant, the Medical Letter maintains, can attribute their condition to "misunderstanding or negligence" (the pills must be taken 20 days a month, at a monthly cost of about $3.50). But despite such assurance, the Letter suggests that until information about possible long-term side effects is far more complete, an oral contraceptive be used only when other methods "do not serve...
USSR, much more clever, attempts to sweeten the pill itself, by avoiding inflammatory statements and using a very soft-sell of the myriad delights in the Workers' Paradise. Unfortunately, subtlety is not the Russians' forte. USSR at its best is an informative, mildly interesting pictorial magazine; at its worst it is almost a self-parody of Communist propaganda. Finally, Poland, a truly fine publication, has merely set about producing a good magazine, in the hope that sympathy for Poland will develop among its readers as a matter of course...
...Ruins, but the contents never varied. There was always just enough plot to hold together a succession of chats in which the aged Lord Stoke, who cultivates a deafness of convenience, Mrs. Morland, the giddy novelist, and various gentle-born friends agree that the bishopess (always absent) is a pill. Gradually, as the Barsetshire books piled up, nearly everyone of note in the county appeared, married and begat (hardly anyone died), and Storyteller Thirkell confessed that for the life of her she could not keep track of all the children...