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Criticism from his countrymen is something South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky can answer or ignore -as the mood moves him. But crit icism from the U.S. is always a bitter pill. Last week Ky refused to swallow it. "If by the standards of a country with long experience in democracy, our elections still present serious shortcomings," he wrote to his detractors in the U.S. Congress, "I am the first Vietnamese to deplore that situation. But I can say without any doubt in my conscience that my government does not deserve any lesson in honesty and patriotism...
Died. Gregory Goodwin Pincus, 64, research director of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology and a brain father of birth control pills; of myeloid metaplasia, a blood disease; in Boston. A brilliant biologist, Pincus first won national attention in 1939 by inducing a "fatherless" mammalian birth (a lab-fertilized rabbit egg); then in the 1950s, with Harvard Gynecologist John Rock, successfully tested an ovulation depressant called progestin, which came on the market in 1960 as Enovid. At his death, Pincus was testing yet another idea: a "morning after" pill, which keeps fertilized eggs from settling in the womb...
...been talking more moderately. He has suggested that he might be ready to bring the Yemen war to an end, and he has hinted that he would like to restore diplomatic ties with the U.S. But to accept Israel as Tito proposed still seems to be too bitter a pill for defeated Arabs to swallow. Obviously even Tito had his doubts that Nasser would take the medicine; as an alternative to ending the "state of war" by frank Arab concession, Tito suggested that the U.N., or Russia...
...them, do so. Though several of the subcommittee's witnesses so far have tended to support the contention that generic-name drugs are potent and acceptable, they have also admitted that they cannot really sort out what is equal to what in the pullulating pill market. No one, it appears, has run a comprehensive test on an entire family of drugs, such as the cortisone-type hormones, which show fantastic price spreads, to see how they really compare in medical effectiveness. Not until laboratory experts agree on how to do that-and then do it-will it be possible...
Inevitably, many of Expo's 3,000 movies are straightforward sales-promotion pitches, done with all the imagination of a headache-pill TV commercial. Russia and Israel, for example, may be a spectrum apart at the U.N., but at Expo, their threadbare cinema techniques are interchangeable. Israel pats itself on the back with its customary miracle-in-the-Negev approach. Russia shows a stupefying selection of dreary movies, including shorts featuring capering comrades at a Black Sea resort and bears playing ice hockey, which look like rejects from a FitzPatrick travelogue of the '30s. To make matters worse...