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Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Elmo Zumwalt has banished bell-bottoms and allowed sideburns to lengthen and beards to flourish among his men. However, these will be but footnotes to his reputation as a radical admiral if two members of Congress get their wish: Michigan Congressman Jack McDonald and New York Senator Jacob Javits want the Navy to admit women to Annapolis. Both Republican legislators plan to nominate coeds for admission to the Naval Academy, for 126 years the all-male training ground of Navy officers...
...report presents it, the result is a sort of Utopia-not the stagnation of civilization. "A society released from struggling with the many problems imposed by growth," the report says, "may have more energy and ingenuity available for solving other problems." Research, the arts, athletics might well flourish in a no-growth world. Nor would developing nations necessarily be frozen into everlasting poverty. Without the burden of an increasing population, they might provide fewer citizens more amenities...
...Gonorrhea now rates as America's most urgent public health problem, and officials have urged routine screening to detect the hundreds of thousands of new cases each year. But detection is often difficult, especially in women. Gonococci, the germs of gonorrhea, flourish and multiply astronomically in human genitalia, but are difficult to preserve for laboratory test cultures. The organisms are sensitive to air and often die by the time a specimen reaches a lab technician. Now Smith Kline and French Laboratories have devised a simple, self-contained test that physicians can perform in their own offices. The doctor takes...
Harris also explored people's sources of medical information. Only a narrow majority (51%) mentioned physicians. Surprisingly, 52% cited TV, newspaper or magazine advertising as being among their sources. News stories in one medium or another were named by 79%. With a flourish of holier-than-thou rhetoric, the Blue Cross Association concluded: "It is really disgraceful that the American public must obtain a large part of its health knowledge from advertising and by ferreting out medical news from newspapers, magazines and television (much of which news has been so popularized and butchered as to be useless...
...that he will make it in the big league. In the past 20 seasons, such celebrated Heisman heroes as Notre Dame's Johnny Lattner (1953). Navy's Joe Bellino (1960). Oregon State's Terry Baker (1962) and U.C.L.A.'s Gary Beban (1967) all failed to flourish in the pros. And good as Sullivan is, a few scouts feel that he does not rate as high as a much less heralded passer: Gary Wichard of C.W. Post College...