Word: cautiousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been known for a century that a foreign body in the uterus can prevent conception - at least in animals. But how could such a process work and be put to safe human use? Even though modern medical men have no sure answers, the cautious and respectable Planned Parenthood Federation of America announced last week that its medical advisers are now giving "strong, though preliminary" approval to the newest form of birth control. Information accumulated from more than 10,000 women during 90,000 woman-months of observation, said P.P.F.'s medical committee, "indicates that the modern intrauterine contraceptive devices...
...anti-gypsy-moth campaign in New Jersey has sprayed 41,000 acres of infested forest with carbaryl, an insecticide that takes only hours to turn into inert residue. Carbaryl is therefore less effective than DDT, which stays on the foliage and kills caterpillars for weeks or months. Lest the cautious chemical fail to save the forests, New Jersey's moth fighters also plan to drop by airplane 100,000 cardboard traps baited with a synthetic sex scent to attract male gypsy moths. New Jersey conservationists hope that when caterpillars that survive spraying turn into mature moths the males will...
RECORDS Cut-Rate Classics In the modern supermarket, the hapless shopper is besieged at every turn by labels of BARGAIN BONANZA! slapped on everything from brussels sprouts to lawnmowers-and, of late, records. In the past, the quality-cautious shopper could rightfully assume that those cut-rate LPs racked next to the vegetable bins were, from a musical standpoint, about as choice a bargain as last week's Bibb lettuce. Recently, however, several giants of the recording industry have launched new lines of low-cost (from $1.98 to $3) classical records that are honest-to-goodness bargains. Designed...
...Cardinals, thrive on sauerbraten, like to remember that their town produced T. S. Eliot as well as Stan Musial, and pronounce Gravois Street as "Gravoy." Men like Mayor Ray Tucker have brought a new awakening. Says he: "This is a warm, stable community. The people here are conservative and cautious. But I have yet to see them fail to respond to a program for civic betterment when it is explained to them...
Into the Saharan oasis town of Biskra rolled a cautious column of halftracks loaded with olive-uniformed Algerian troops. Spears of sunlight flashed from the lenses of binoculars as nervous officers searched the streets for signs of the enemy. But the town was empty of armed opposition, and all eyes lifted to the sere, sawback massif that reared beyond. Up there, among the blue defiles of the Aures Mountains, waited the latest defector from Premier Ahmed ben Bella's socialist paradise, and with him were 9,000 well-armed veterans ready for resistance, rebellion or death...