Word: milks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Milk. At the high school level, it is harder to separate contraception from sexual delinquency, and the lack of it from pregnancy and possible abortion. Once a teen-ager has become pregnant, has been expelled from school, and has had either a baby or an abortion, the chances are that she will soon be pregnant again. To break the pattern, Dr. Philip Sarrel recently took 90 pregnancy dropouts in New Haven, set up special classes for them and, with their parents' permission, put them on the pill or gave them IUDs. On form, he could have expected 50 pregnancies...
...psychiatrist asked 30 assembled mothers whether they would give birth-control pills to their teen-age daughters. Only a few said no. Most were undecided. One-third said yes, definitely-and one mother announced that she was already slipping the pill into her daughter's breakfast milk...
...basic issue, of course, was money. While the average price of 8? to 10? a quart that dairymen receive for their milk has not changed for two decades, their production costs have risen markedly. This has forced thousands of farmers out of business. In Wisconsin, the nation's biggest dairy producing state, dairy farms shut down at the rate of 90 to 100 a week last year. The N.F.O. reasoned that if it could hold enough milk off the market, it could break the cycle and raise farmers' prices by 2? a quart...
...Little Lovemaking. By week's end, the strike had proved largely unsuccessful, though a few dairies closed and milk disappeared from store shelves in Nashville altogether. While more farmers endorsed the strikers' aims, many disapproved of their methods and ignored threats of violence. "As long as there are people going hungry anywhere," protested Wisconsin Dairyman William Blank, "I don't think any food should be willfully destroyed." Moreover, about half of the milk produced nationwide normally goes into such byproducts as cheese, butter and ice cream, so that distributors with ample inventories were able to bottle...
Charles Shuman, head of the conservative-and much larger-American Farm Bureau Federation (TIME cover, Sept. 3, 1965), chided N.F.O. members for misdirecting their protest. Shuman, who blames most agricultural ills on Washington and the Department of Agriculture, jested that the farmers should not dump milk but should use it to paint the White House fence instead. Shuman suggested that farmers would get higher prices by bargaining with food processors through cooperatives than by depending on federal subsidies. Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman took a different tack, suggesting that "perhaps consumers should be prepared to pay a little more." Though...