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Perhaps this Administration will succeed in firing a golf ball or tranquilizer pill into a satellite orbit by the time the Russians occupy the moon...
After decades of research to find a contraceptive pill, doctors have now been swamped with synthetic steroid hormones that work both ways: they will either prevent conception or encourage it, depending on how they are given. The first such product was announced by Chicago's G. D. Searle & Co. (TIME, May 6); this also had stop-and-go power over the menstrual cycle. Last week three drug manufacturers joined the New York Academy of Sciences in sponsoring a Manhattan conference which received progress reports on the varied and potent effects of several "progestagens" (progesterone-like hormones). Outstanding items...
Where Massachusetts Avenue meets Mount Auburn Street there are several stores. There is nothing very remarkable about this location, which is somewhere between Harry's Arcade and Hyman Pill's hardware store. That is, there is nothing remarkable about it at the present time. For but a few short months ago an unusual store was opened at that location. The store was "The X-Mas Outlet." It was a very nice store even if the idea of cut-rate Christmas has certain sentimental drawbacks. There were shiny cars and golden-haired dolls and smiling, happy salesmen. All this...
Spelling It Out. In Walla Walla, Wash., a convict in the state penitentiary ripped open his package of three hollowed-out religious books, found, instead of an expected 3,000 Benzedrine-type pills, a note from the warden informing "to whom it may concern" that pill smuggling in the prison had been discovered...
...There is danger in the carefree use of the most popular "happiness pill," meprobamate (trade-named Miltown and Equanil), warned the A.M.A.'s Council on Drugs. Side effects, including allergic reactions, shaking chills and fever, have been reported; the drug should be used under medical supervision, with the same care as other tranquilizers...