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...estrogen. Since the pills supply estrogen, they are often prescribed for treatment of acne. Other women complain that they don't menstruate while on the pills. This is seldom true, because of the pills' regularizing effect. A Los Angeles mother says that the pill was "magic-a godsend" for her 15-year-old daughter, whose menstruation was so irregular and heavy that she suffered serious blood loss and near-shock, and needed transfusions. On the pill for six months, she now has "pink cheeks, regular periods, a good figure and has gained ten pounds." Wryly, a young woman...
Still, the big problem of too much is likely to keep growing. Attracted by ample federal tax writeoffs on the cost of developing new groves, growers will have increased Florida's orange acreage from 500,000 to 800,000 acres by 1970. Barring a godsend, that adds up to a 200-million-box disaster...
...better. Setting up such a trust may cost more than probate in lawyers' fees, trustees' fees and stock-transfer taxes. Even so, in many cases the trust can save post-death administrative expenses equaling as much as 10% of the estate. Moreover, it may be a godsend to older citizens yearning to let others take over their business headaches. In sum, the creator of a living trust...
When Tory Sir Harry Hylton-Foster agreed to be Speaker of the House of Commons last fall, his decision was a godsend to new Prime Minister Harold Wilson. It meant that the Labor government would not have to reduce its perilously small majority by filling the non-voting post with a Laborite. But last week Sir Harry dropped dead on a London street, and to Labor that seemed a bit much, coming as it did in the wake of a Labor M.P.'s death fortnight ago, which trimmed Wilson's edge over the Conservatives to a mere...
...covery of their potentialities. Of the first 50 students at Western Washington, Instructor Richard Cobb says: "Ten are going to fail, one should have been sent home the first week, and seven of them would have made it without us. But for 32, we've been a godsend." Yet most of the students still must survive a year or more of high school back in their home environment, where this summer's glow can easily fade. "When you aspire, like they say," wonders one Negro boy, "don't you get slapped down that much easier?" Aware...