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...camel froth. Indianapolis' Eli Lilly & Co. is experimenting with pills that have to be taken only once a month, and Ortho is working hard on a vaccine. Emko, a subsidiary of St. Louis' Sunnen Products, has won the endorsement of the Planned Parenthood Federation for an aerosol foam preparation that effectively prevents conception for up to an hour...
...Till the foam has a savor of blood
Untamed & Drenched. The first Californians. the Spanish, called it El Sur Grande, the Big South - a wild and wonderful coastline that begins 150 miles south of San Francisco where the Santa Lucia mountains plunge vertiginously into the foam-fringed Pacific, then soars and tumbles along 72 miles of redwood-studded promontories, bare earth cliffs and sandy beaches to San Luis Obispo. 200 miles north of Los Angeles. And while most of the California coast was sprouting pink motels, filling stations, and the cantilevered eyries of the rich, this stretch of Monterey County kept its rugged beauty...
...minutes before it got clearance to make an instrument landing. Just as it was touching down, it veered to the right. A wingtip struck the ground, and the eerie, fog-shrouded night came ablaze. Emergency crews were on the spot within minutes, festooning the wreckage with fire-extinguishing foam. Of 46 passengers and five crew members, 26 survived-and 25 died...
Nothing but Foam. Gaullists argue that France's President needs powers commensurate with those of his U.S. counterpart. In fact, the French constitution, the 15th since the Revolution, gives De Gaulle far more; it contains few of the checks and balances that safeguard U.S. freedoms. His power of dissolution is a mighty club over the legislature. France has no independent judiciary empowered to reject unconstitutional measures. Moreover, the President can bypass a balky Assembly at will by taking controversial issues to the people; he has already used the referendum seven times. While De Gaulle calls this process "direct democracy...