Word: controled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discoveries, says Biophysicist Gilbert, confirm that cells of E. coli are controlled by gene-repressing agents and effectively demonstrate how simple cell mechanisms work. They may bring closer the day when scientists will be capable of genetic control of human beings, determining their characteristics and correcting metabolic defects by turning the proper genes...
...currently have three albums on the U.S. bestseller charts. Though they deny that they consciously play up their rebel image, they bill themselves as "five reflections of to day's children," write songs about "trying to make some girl," with supposedly coded allusions to menstruation, marijuana and birth-control pills. For their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in January, they reluctantly altered the words of their recent hit, Let's Spend the Night Together...
Hardly had the pontifical commission on birth control submitted its findings to Pope Paul VI last year when word was passed that most of the commission's members had recommended abolishing the Roman Catholic Church's ban on contraception. Most people took it for granted that the news leak was an effort to pressure the Pope into siding with the majority-and soon. But the pressure seems to have had no noticeable effect; Paul has still to announce his long-awaited decision. Last week, in what was viewed as another evident attempt to hasten a liberal papal ruling...
...majority of the 76-member body of lay and clerical experts had indeed agreed that it was time for a change. And the liberals wisely based their argument, for the most part, not on the impersonal and narrow ground of population control, but on the contention that contraception can contribute to a happier married life. "If they are to observe and cultivate all the essential val ues of marriage," said the majority report, "married people need decent and human means for the regulation of conception. They should be able to expect the collaboration of all, especially from men of learning...
...pontifical commission was not alone in its sharp split over the official Catholic stand on contraception. Students and faculty at Washington's Catholic University of America walked out last week to protest the firing of a popular professor, and once more, not only birth control, but an article in the National Catholic Reporter was involved...