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Subsidized Control. Though Dr. Nayar herself had long been a birth-control skeptic in the Gandhi tradition (she was once his private physician), she agreed three years ago to test the Lippes loop, a U.S.-designed intrauterine contraceptive device that prevents the development of a fetus in the womb. Only eleven of the 2,839 Indian women fitted with them last year became pregnant, and five of these conceived after their little white loops had been removed. That convinced her, she said last week, that Lippes loops are "the answer" to India's problem...
...loops cost so little to manufacture (1? each) that the Indian government expects to give away 1,000,000 within a year, 2,000,000 a year by 1967, and 5,000,000 a year after that. While the country prepares a plant to produce its own, it will rely on 1,200,000 gift loops from the Manhattan-based Population Council. Radio broadcasts, movies and roving clinics will explain the device in thousands of villages, and the government will divide a $1-per-insertion subsidy among midwives who bring women to the clinics, doctors who insert the loops...
...elation soon turned to despair. JPL control began receiving conflicting signals about the performance of the two-track, continuous-loop tape recorder. "There is alarm in the analysis team," James announced. The signals hinted that something was wrong with the recorder's stop mechanism. Quite possibly it was not cutting off for a 24-second interval between each picture. If so, the tape would have run through its two tracks twice as fast as it should have; it would have recorded only half of the 21 pictures. The confusion was compounded when a disembodied voice over the intercom announced...
Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley was hopping mad. Just the day before, midday Loop traffic had been snarled for four hours while 500 civil rights demonstrators marched on city hall and the nearby board of education building to protest a decision to keep School Superintendent Benjamin C. Willis on the job for another 17 months. Daley got Police Superintendent Orlando W. Wilson on the phone, told him: "Nothing like what happened yesterday will exist today." When the demonstrators showed up, cops arrested 252 men, women and children in what may well have been the opening round of a racially...
...citywide school boycott scheduled for last week fell through when the board's attorney got a court injunction prohibiting it. Instead, the righters marched, causing the Loop's traffic tie-up. Next day some 500 marchers lined up in two lanes on Lake Shore Drive near Soldier Field to begin the 2½-mile trek to city hall. After they had gone a few hundred yards and turned into a narrower street, police ordered them to walk in only one lane. A heated argument ensued, and suddenly the marchers began sprawling across the roadway, blocking a busy intersection...