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...When dollar-conscious Britain decided to try out oral contraceptives developed in the U.S., doctors in Birmingham thought they might cut the cost by cutting the dose. U.S. authorities had just approved a cut from 10 mg. per pill (taken 20 days a month) of norethynodrel (trade-named Enovid in the U.S., Conovid in Britain by G. D. Searle & Co.) to 5 mg. The British cut it to 2.5 mg. The policy proved to be penny-wise and pound-foolish: of the first 48 women who took the half-dose pills, 14 became pregnant. Later trials switched...
Slowed by a stroke five years ago, she later developed osteomyelitis and cancer. This spring her friend Joseph P. Kennedy sent specialists from the East. Last week Marion Davies died, aged 61. Some 30 years earlier on the lot at MG-M, after answering an interrupting phone call from Pops, she had turned smiling to a friend and stuttered out a line that could be her epitaph: "H-h-h-hearst come, H-h-h-hearst served...
...rationalize the irrational." The rational order came only after a three-man, seven-month job of covering the running story on Laos' little war. TIME Correspondent Jerry Schecter bounced about the front in single-engined planes. Correspondent James Wilde narrowly escaped death when mortar fragments riddled his MG during the battle for Vientiane last December. Fortnight ago he wangled his way into the rebel-held Plaine des Jarres for a startling report on the Communist arms buildup there (TIME, March 10). Karnow himself talked to a vast collection of sources: princes, diplomats, generals, former Viet Minh officers and Pathet...
Ricketts sometimes chafes at the restrictions, however mild, of working for what is essentially a serviceman's newspaper. But such moods pass. Married to a Canadian-Nisei whom he met at a party, tooling around Tokyo in his crimson MG, demolishing a movie or some visiting star, reading with great pleasure the latest stack of scurrilous mail, Al Ricketts has everything he wants. Says he: "I'm doing a job I love in a town I love...
...blue-green MG Roadster valued at $1900 was stolen from the Eliot House parking lot between 9 and 9:15 Saturday night...