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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pill" over two decades of trial and error; it deals with its medical aspects as well as with its moral and social implications. It was written by Gilbert Cant, TIME's Medicine writer for 18 years, edited by Peter Bird Martin and researched by Jean Bergerud, with the help of many TIME correspondents. The cover picture is the work of Photographer Robert S. Crandall, who assembled most of the currently available pills into a shape representing the scientific symbol for "female." If the pastel colors of the pills create a rather cheery, vernal effect, that is not inappropriate...
...Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach, defended the need for secret financing when CIA started the practice 15 years ago, it concluded that this is now outdated and unnecessary. Enough private foundations currently exist to give financial aid to most needy groups. For those that are unable to find such help or that seem especially worthy, the Katzenbach committee recommended that a public-private organization-perhaps like the Smithsonian Institution-be created...
...planned and McDonnell collected a $25 million bonus. "McDonnell's engineers always seemed to be on top of the problem," says NASA Flight Director Chris Kraft. As often as not, Mr. Mac himself would turn up at Cape Kennedy for a 3 a.m. breakfast with departing astronaut crews. To help him recall who was who, he invariably carried a small black notebook crammed with the names of wives, children?and even their dogs. "Mr. Mac is an anachronism," says NASA's Paul Haney. "There's a measured cadence in working with him that's refreshing?the same aura that...
...McDonnell begins right after 7:30 a.m. calisthenics when, over breakfast in his distinctly unpretentious colonial house in the St. Louis suburb of Ladue, he reads papers and reaches decisions. At the plant, amid the wail of Phantoms taking off to fly directly to Viet Nam (with the help of in-flight refueling and an Okinawa stop), he operates out of a spacious but spartan corner office, with a scuffed carpet and hand-me-down, imitation-leather chairs...
...factory. In another diversification, the company has created thriving automation centers in Houston, Denver, St. Louis and Columbia, Mo. Operating $40 million worth of computers, the centers keep records for 22 St. Louis banks, handle warehousing and order control for a shoe manufacturer, compute tax bills for Colorado counties, help devise game strategy for the Denver Broncos' professional football team...