Word: gideons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American interest in the cap revived in 1977 with publication of Women and the Crisis in Sex Hormones, by Barbara Seaman and Dr. Gideon Seaman, which contains a brief chapter extolling the merits of the cervical cap. The women's self-help movement began pushing for the contraceptive, but the FDA, citing a 1976 law regulating medical devices, ruled that it would have to undergo testing for safety and efficacy. More than 40,000 women ultimately took part in the stringent and lengthy trials...
...joined in the fun. Says Columbia University Sociologist Herbert Gans: "When there's a national festival, the hucksters are there. That's nothing new." Pens, place mats, puzzles, ashtrays, comic books and even thermometers will carry a constitutional motif. Hilton Hotels will place copies of the Constitution along with Gideon Bibles in each room. For Saturday-morning viewing, ABC Television has produced a series of Constitution Bicentennial Minutes, featuring Bugs Bunny and friends...
Civil liberties expert Alan M. Dershowitz, Professor of Law, discussed Clarence Gideon's suit for a court-appointed lawyer in a spot which aired November...
STARMAN Directed by John Carpenter Screenplay by Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon...
...graduate notes the disturbing underside of the pervasive freedom on campus then. "Harvard assumed you were ready for freedom, whether or not you were," says Rintel, whose works include Clarence Darrow on Broadway, and the television screenplay of Gideon's Trumpet. "Harvard says, in effect, 'you do whatever you want while you're here.' And I did. I played poker every night and didn't go to class nearly enough. I drifted Advice was there only if you actively looked for it. It's easy to slip through the crack," he says. Finally after his freshman year. Rintels took time...