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After 15 years in operation, the Population Council has found that the most effective time to tell poor or ignorant young women about birth control is just after they have had a baby. Not only in India, but also in U.S. low-income strata, 10% of women become pregnant again within seven months after a live birth, and 20% within a year. After a stillbirth or abortion, with no nursing to reduce fertility, the interval can drop to as little as three months...
...Romney Girl in the Governor's reelection campaign. Ronna, whose father is a Presbyterian, had been raised by her mother as a Roman Catholic. She quit college in 1963 to marry Robert Connolly, a Catholic. She divorced him a year and a half ago after the birth of a son, and resumed her education at Oakland University. Last November she was baptized into the Mormon Church a month before she and Scott became engaged...
Ferocious Reader. Sandra Dale Dennis was stamped for export almost from her birth on April 27, 1937, in Hastings, Neb. (pop. 15,412), where her father, Jack Dennis, was a bakery driver-salesman who also happened to have a tested IQ of 160. After the war, Jack joined the post office as a railway mail clerk based in Lincoln (pop. 98,884), where Sandy was mainly raised. Her mother toiled as a secretary, lest their daughter ever be unindulged. Sandy, after all, was a quick, creative child who read ferociously long before she got to school. Later on, she regularly...
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...
...Birth, not death, is the hard loss...