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...Pill. The effect of the birth-control pill intrigues and puzzles the experts. Certainly, declares the U.S. Public Health Service, pills did not initiate the downturn, since they were not introduced for general use until June 1960, and not used in large numbers until a year later. Nonetheless, nearly 4,000,000 women are now using the pill, and, points out Boston's Dr. John Rock, a pioneer in birth-control development, "they're not getting pregnant." Steven Polgar, research director of the Planned Parenthood Federation, confidently credits the pill with at least one-fourth of the drop...
...Matter of One-Half Inch. Most golfers would have gone to bed with a pill and a prayer for the morrow. Not Nicklaus, the perfectionist. What, exactly, was wrong on those two missed putts? He got his answer studying a TV rerun. "I had my eyes outside the ball," he said. It took a few minutes of intense practice to adjust his stance-a matter of about one-half inch. Beaming broadly, he strode onto the first tee for next day's play-off and slammed his opening drive...
Undoubtedly, the law should be tougher on drinking drivers. Half of all the fatally injured drivers are listed by police as "H.B.D."-Had Been Drinking. Tranquilizers also play a role: doctors calculate that one pill equals one drink. The U.S. might be wise to emulate Sweden, where police routinely stop drivers and take suspected drinkers to the station house for blood tests; anyone with more than .05% alcohol in his blood stream (about one cocktail) is sentenced to as much as six months in jail. That is more than many a drunken driver in the U.S. gets for killing...
...injected. Now there is a plethora of estrogens and of the other sex hormones, progestins and androgens. Most of them are at least partly synthetic, and they can be taken easily by mouth. A couple of years ago, a patient who had kept on taking the birth-control pill Enovid after her menopause gave Dr. Wilson a new insight: the pill-which contains both a progestin and an estrogen-seemed adequate and acceptable for alleviating the "change of life...
...reverie, flashback, and stream of consciousness, but his cleverest device is to divide Gareth O'Donnell into a public and private self played, respectively, by Patrick Bedford and Donal Donnelly. This palpable alter ego, invisible to the other characters, acts as a jazzy Greek chorus, a human pep pill, and a court jester. He laughs when the hero cries and cries when the hero laughs-an alert, ironic, ever-present border guard to keep self-pity from invading pity...