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...effects for the short period of five years is an insufficient trial period. Some cancers have a latent period of 17-35 years following the irritating cause. It would be much safer to prevent the union of sperm and egg by the more conventional methods of contraception than to embark upon a widespread use of a pill, the full effects of which cannot yet be known. ROBERT RUGH New York City...
...than-life statues of Legionnaires. Sentries in white kepis still stood guard before the gate bearing the inscription Légion Etrangère, but packing cases were piled on stair landings and in mess halls, and Legion tanks and halftracks were clanking down the road to Oran to embark for France...
...heads will serve Curtis better than one. and for "in side man" he has chosen Vice President Clay Blair, 37, former Post managing editor. "It's a two-man job," he says, "as long as it's clear who's running the show." Soon he will embark on a five-week barn storming tour of the U.S. to see the "heads of 75 companies, the top 30 ad agencies, bankers, securities analysts...
...only thing that a university need do now to make it even more incapable of solving its persistent problems is to embark on a massive research program into its own continued unwillingness to do things it has long known need to be done." I'm sure such a project would find takers in the schools of education and in the teachers' colleges, which, as Eble elsewhere states, are "large islands of mediocrity" and are known for their "quagmires of methodology." One need only glance down the annual lists of dissertation titles accepted for advanced degrees in education...
Recently, Burma has been beset again by a faltering economy and sharpened political tensions. Heavy floods last fall wiped out 800,000 acres of revenue-producing rice just as the nation was about to embark on an ambitious industrial development plan; U Nu's Union Party elected five left-wingers to key executive posts; ethnic minority groups such as Shans and Karens were demanding greater self-determination, threatening national unity. Last week, reading the signs of a "vastly deteriorating situation," Ne Win staged a lightning-quick coup, seized U Nu and about 40 other government leaders. Despite the rumble...