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Because the method is "natural," it is acceptable to the Roman Catholic Church. Indeed, Monsignor Robert Deegan, of the Los Angeles archdiocese, actively lobbied to get the HEW study grant approved. Still, says Dr. Phyllis McCarthy, an investigator for the study, "some priests are skeptical about the method. They got burned by advising couples to use the rhythm system and don't want any more babies named after them...
Final results of the study, which is being conducted out of Los Angeles' Cedars Sinai Medical Center, will not be in until 1979. But early indications have been so promising that Monsignor Deegan is now establishing a center in Los Angeles for the dissemination throughout the world of information about fertility awareness. The name of the center: World Organization of the Ovulation Method Billings -or, for short. WOOMB...
There are the ones about a rapist who preyed on the elderly, the hood who stuffed a rival into a laundry dryer, a sort of Jack the Shaver who depilated his victims with a razor, and the tale about the monsignor who died in a brothel: the police dressed him and propped him in his car, which they parked at a shopping center. It was piously announced that the prelate had suffered a heart attack while reaching for his glove compartment...
Doherty's versatility has long been his trademark. Captain of the football, baseball and basketball teams at Monsignor Coyle High School in Taunton, Mass., Chris at first attracted a flock of recruiters with his defensive prowess. But then he learned some offense during a post-graduate year at Andover, and has not played a minute of defense during his Harvard career...
...with those of the majority?even the majority of the poor. Thus the underclass minority produces a highly disproportionate number of the nation's juvenile delinquents, school dropouts, drug addicts and welfare mothers, and much of the adult crime, family disruption, urban decay and demand for social expenditures. Says Monsignor Geno Baroni, an assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development: "The underclass presents our most dangerous crisis, more dangerous than the Depression of 1929, and more complex...