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...Healy. We've seen all this before, and it has become so familiar we don't even give it a second thought. They used to apply the term "bigger than life" to the movies, and scenes such as this have that quality, though "different from life" is perhaps more apt a term. It simply feels like a movie. Not that it's over produced, but things are just a little too smooth, the timing is a little too perfect for it to be anything but a cinematic fanatasy. If you fall into one of these situations on your way home...
...even the lowliest aide and will gladly spare a few minutes to look at a secretary's vacation snapshots. In general, he tries to devote his own time to long-range planning and big issues like the manned bomber or the MX basing system, over which he is apt to fret and ruminate. Some feel that such agonizing takes too long and that he could make up his mind faster...
...many names: period, monthly, that time, my friend. But for many women the most apt description is the curse. For about half of all women of child-bearing age, menstruation is a monthly misery that causes intense physical and mental discomfort. In the U.S. alone, menstrual problems result in the loss of 140 million hours of work a year. Menstrual pain, says Pathologist Laurence Demers of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa., "probably is the most common cause for absence of women from the work force...
Less understood than menstrual cramps is the premenstrual syndrome. Days or even two weeks before menstrual bleeding begins, many women experience tenderness and swelling of the breasts, migraine headaches, abdominal bloating and acne. They become lethargic, irritable and depressed. Researchers contend that severely distressed women are apt to have accidents, abuse their children or commit suicide or violent crime...
Like the lovelorn belter of the 1940s ballad Don't Get Around Much Anymore, more and more Americans are becoming chronic stay-at-homes. The high price of a night on the town is a contributing factor, but the lure of an evening in the house is more apt to center on what their owners call media rooms or entertainment centers...