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...Crimson raquetmen accomplished the feat in gut-wrenching fashion, first eking out a narrow upset over Princeton, then swinging past favored Penn and archrival Yale to capture the crown...
Infection, of course, can occur whenever a microbe-laden foreign object is inserted into the body. Indeed, early I.U.D.s, made of a variety of materials ranging from glass, ivory, gold, or ebony to diamond-studded platinum and even silkworm gut, caused so many complications that they soon fell out of favor. But in the 1960s, with the availability of antibiotics and the development of new plastics that made insertion easier, I.U.D.s proliferated. That trend increased when unexpected side effects were discovered from the popular contraceptive pills...
...with life's problems; they just need some feedback and confidence. Seriously disturbed callers are screened out or referred on the air to psychotherapists. "My program is an extension of the consulting room, but it's not psychotherapy," says Grant. Her critics are not so sure. "My gut feeling is against any psychologist who shoots from the hip," says Joseph R. Sanders of the American Psychological Association's (A.P.A.) ethics committee. The spread of radio shrinks, in fact, is producing grumblings among professionals who consider instant airborne advice a kind of quackery that invites malpractice suits...
...Moscow Olympic boycott could not have come at a more inopportune time for NBC. The network has been deep in the ratings cellar for the past five years, and pretax profits have slid from $152.6 million in 1977 to $106 million last year. Silverman, "the man with the golden gut," has been able to raise NBC'S ratings only marginally during his two-year tenure. When he was programming chief at ABC, he promoted his prime-time shows heavily during the 1976 Olympics, and the network grabbed the ratings lead in January 1977. ABC's profits before taxes...
Throughout his tenure, as Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, says, Bok has made it clear that he is not the kind of person who reacts to issues in a "gut fashion." When Bok is even the least bit hesitant about an issue, he assiduously avoids an answer--like his wife, an expert in medical ethics who once refused comment on the Karen Quinlan case. Bok will talk about touchier issues--such as Black students' frustration--but only if he can do so off the record. Some say Bok is unnecessarily wedded to a script, that...