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...probable course into the next decade, comparisons with history's greatest killers begin to make sense. "If we can't make progress, we face the dreadful prospect of a worldwide death toll in the tens of millions a decade from now," warned Health and Human Services Secretary Otis Bowen at a recent gathering of the National Press Club. Such earlier epidemics as typhus, smallpox and even the black death will "look very pale by comparison," he continued. "You haven't read or heard of anything...
...officials are calling for enormous increases in AIDS testing for pregnant women and even for couples applying for marriage licenses. More than any measures, however, health officials at every level are pleading for what is very nearly a social revolution. Says U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Otis R. Bowen: "I can't emphasize too strongly the necessity of changing life-styles...
When Health Secretary Bowen called for a change in life-style, he was asking a great deal of human nature. Throughout history, even in straitlaced cultures or eras of inhibition, sex is always the genie that cannot be % contained in the bottle. Its heedless imperatives mostly seize the young: the least disciplined, least knowledgeable and least likely segment of society to take any thought for the morrow or have any intimations of their own mortality. And there are those in any society who are forever young, or venturesome, or lonely or simply careless. To pause on the downhill slope...
SENIOR WRITERS: Ezra Bowen, George J. Church, Gerald Clarke, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Gregory Jaynes, John Leo, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Roger Rosenblatt, R.Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...
Departing Princeton President William G. Bowen has appointed a committee to assess the strength of the humanities at the university and the effectiveness of distribution requirements in ensuring that all students receive a humanistic background...