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...working on economic messages and policy papers for Governor Freeman atop a heavy academic load, Heller developed a stubborn case of rheumatic fever. Hospitalized for six months, he had a dictating machine set up beside his bed and kept right on working. He still takes a penicillin pill every morning to prevent a recurrence. For recreation back home in Minnesota, Heller used to go into the backyard and chop firewood for hours...
...directions to doctors say that the pills are offered to treat many menstrual disorders: "habitual or threatened abortion," and to "establish conditions conducive to pregnancy" in many cases of infertility. All this is true. But the pills do more: used on a precise schedule, they prevent conception, without intolerable side effects, and, beginning this week, at moderate cost. "Oral contraception," says a doctor in the Journal of the American Medical Association, "has become an accomplished fact." As an accomplished fact, its potentials are vast. In the U.S., oral contraception could, for many people, supplant more awkward, older methods...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Medicine Man" swallows another bitter pill-the fly-by-night maker of phony Pharmaceuticals...
...Philip White, go hand in hand. "People are able and willing to seek the easy way out. Today they have the money and leisure time to indulge themselves, and they have been conditioned by the dramatic progress of medicine in the past few decades to believe that almost any pill, capsule or tonic is a miracle drug. People are disease conscious, and their fears about disease set them up for exploitation by the pseudo-scientific huckster...
...firing. To find the bubbles, the company had to haul the finished rocket motor to a giant X-ray laboratory, spend two to three weeks taking pictures. Aerojet's radiation experts went to work, found they could do the job in hours by slipping in a radioactive cobalt pill, using photon-counters to measure the rate of radiation. If it was steady, no bubbles. They kept improving their photon-detection equipment, now have a device that promises X-ray pictures with %o the radiation exposure of the most modern X-ray equipment...