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...will follow next year with Son of the Man and the Girl from U.N.C.L.E. It all reached a ridiculous if predictable end last week when CBS and NBC an nounced their latest replacement series -Mr. Terrific and Captain Nice. Terrific is a Milquetoast gas-station attendant who takes a pill and becomes a sort of CIA Superman. Nice is a Milquetoast chemist who takes a potion and becomes a police-department Superman. The quest for originality, in short, stops at the Nielsen lists, and fresh ideas are in as short supply as fresh talent...
Effects of the Pill. In greatest demand are women office workers. For the first time, women have been hired as clerks on the floor of the American Stock Exchange. John Fanning of Manhattan's Fanning Personnel Agency says that the shortage of secretaries "is the tightest we've ever seen"; a competent young secretary in New York can get $110 a week. Like many training and placement agencies, the Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School offers refresher courses for older graduates who have been busy raising children, but now want to get back to work...
...kept away by a child with the mumps or some other domestic crisis. At the same time, much of the old prejudice against hiring younger women-for fear that they will marry, become pregnant and quit-has eased with the rise in use of the birth-control pill. "We never would have done this before the pill," says a Midwestern publisher who now hires mostly women...
People who suffer from the sudden, sharp chest pains called angina pectoris usually carry nitroglycerin pills or amyl nitrite for quick, dramatic relief. The frightening spasms commonly occur in long-standing heart disease patients when they exercise or are exposed to cold weather. But what is the victim to do if the pain strikes and he has forgotten his pill? A report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine suggests an effective emergency treatment: when an attack takes place, hold the nose, close the mouth and blow...
...staff of six (he gave himself veto power over everything the rest of the staff does, but promised never to use it, "Or else what's the sense of having a staff?") is not out to get the Advocate, only to improve it. "The Advocate needs a pep pill -- that's us. The time is ripe. If Scorpion comes across, the Advocate can no longer rely on its name...