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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laurence K. Marshall of Cambridge will lead the group for the sixth time. With him will be his son, John Marshall '55, Robert Gesteland, of the University of Michigan and M.I.T., and Robert G. Gardner...
...ROBERT G. HUDSON Wood Ridge...
After decades of research to find a contraceptive pill, doctors have now been swamped with synthetic steroid hormones that work both ways: they will either prevent conception or encourage it, depending on how they are given. The first such product was announced by Chicago's G. D. Searle & Co. (TIME, May 6); this also had stop-and-go power over the menstrual cycle. Last week three drug manufacturers joined the New York Academy of Sciences in sponsoring a Manhattan conference which received progress reports on the varied and potent effects of several "progestagens" (progesterone-like hormones). Outstanding items...
PROGESTERONE (the natural form) and the synthetic progestagens are female hormones. Given to men, they can both increase fertility and serve as temporary desexing agents, said Dr. Carl G. Heller after studies at Oregon State Penitentiary. In men with a low sperm count, the drugs drop the count to zero, but when the drugs are stopped, there is a rebound to more normal levels, increasing the likelihood of conception. In normal-count men, the drugs also reduce sexual desire, suggesting that they might be used along with psychotherapy in treating homosexuals...
ANTITRUST BATTLE is boiling up over Procter & Gamble's $30 million purchase of Clorox Chemical Co., biggest U.S. seller of household liquid bleach. Federal Trade Commission says that purchase gives P. & G. 48% of liquid-bleach market (v. 16% for nearest competitor), charges that combination of two companies may "substantially lessen competition" or "tend to create a monopoly" in home-laundry business...