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...bedroom of a London home, dark-haired Dillon Usill, 31, lay in labor, awaiting the birth of her first child. Counseling and assisting the patient was Dr. Grantly Dick Read, famed pioneer advocate of the "natural-childbirth" technique, which seeks to reduce the mother's dependence on drugs through relaxation and elimination of fear. As in many births by the natural method, the prospective father was on hand, comforting and reassuring his wife-and, in this case, operating a tape recorder to pick up every bedside sound. From twelve hours of tape recorded during labor, Westminster Records last week...
During the past year, the Vatican announced, the 80-year-old Pope received a million people in audiences, delivered more than 200 major speeches and radio addresses, not to mention minor messages and talks. His visitors comprised all sorts, conditions and faiths. Before 700 gynecologists the Pope discussed painless childbirth; he lectured racing drivers and members of an Italian automobile club on politeness; he received Germany's Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Otto Dibelius and U.S. Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss, the workers of Lombardy, the Roman nobility, 360 U.S. servicemen from NATO, and officials of the U.N. Office of Public...
...silver screen. U.S. movie makers are bound by ground rules: the industry's own self-censorship code, first drafted in 1929. Last week the movie industry announced the code's first major overhaul in a quarter-century. Items: ¶J Sex. "Open-mouth kissing" has been banned. Childbirth may now be "treated within the careful limits of good taste." Abortion may be "suggested," but must be seriously "condemned." Seduction, rape, adultery and fornication "shall not be explicitly treated, nor . . . justified." Prostitutes and their managers are now restricted to a once-over-lightly treatment. But the ban stays...
Most doctors pay little attention to the pubococcygeus until a woman has serious trouble;resulting from its inability to support vital organs-usually after childbirth. Then, in severe cases, they call in the surgeon. Dr. Kegel, 62, gynecologist and onetime (1927-31) health commissioner of Chicago, argues that this is wrong on two counts: 1) the importance of the pubococcygeus has been neglected because it has usually been studied only in cadavers, where it is always flaccid, whereas its weakness should be detected promptly in living patients; 2) there is a better way than surgery to correct most cases...
...fact, the only tragedy in Duchin's life was death, a subject that Hollywood ordinarily does not like to contemplate with seriousness. Duchin's bride died in childbirth, and Eddy had scarcely recovered from the shock when he learned that he was afflicted with leukemia. The film suggests that he had no consolations, either of religion or philosophy, to help him face imminent extinction. Except for some murmured complaints about how unfair "They" are in arranging man's fate, the problem was resolved entirely in terms of how and when Eddy should tell his son and prospective...