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Gynecologic Disorders. Some doctors still fear that women who participate in competitive sports suffer bad effects, including masculinization and menstrual disorders. But Illinois' Dr. Gyula J. Erdelyi insists that most of these fears are groundless. Reporting last week on a study of 729 Hungarian women athletes, Dr. Erdelyi called masculinization claims highly exaggerated," said that unfavorable changes in the menstrual cycle occur no more frequently among sportswomen (about 10%) than among nonathletic females. He also studied 172 pregnant women athletes, found complications of pregnancy less frequent than among nonathletes. Labor time was generally shorter, and the frequency of Caesarean...
...going nowhere in particular. Some economists are once again talking about a mature economy, worry that there are no new breakthroughs in sight to give the nation a great forward push such as the auto and electronics did. But the past shows that such worries about the future are groundless. The pace of research is such that man's next great discovery may come next month, next week-or tomorrow...
Once out, he found that his fears of being punished for desertion were groundless: the statute of limitations for wartime desertion had long since made him immune from prosecution, and besides, added Izvestia charitably, 18 years in a manure pile was punishment enough...
...airlines' major fears has turned out to be groundless. The military had warned the lines that one of the biggest dangers would be sucking objects into the jet intake, especially on takeoff. So far neither Pan American. Trans World Airlines nor National Airlines has had a single case of engine damage either from nuts and bolts picked up on the runway or from birds in the air. American has had only one case-and it ended happily. Taking off from New York's Idlewild Airport, an American 707 on a training flight plowed through a flock of seagulls...
...sales estimate: $178 million) Preussag mining combine, whose activities range from coal mining to oil refining. The government took the step with some misgivings: a 1958 poll seemed to indicate that 40% of all Germans had little knowledge of stock, and presumably little interest. The doubts were groundless. The shares were snapped up so fast that the Bonn government decided last week to allot an additional 530,000 shares to subscribers...