Word: parentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston, Dr. Paul S. Henshaw, research director of the Planned Parent hood Federation of America, reported that rapid technical progress is being made in the field of fertility control. "It seems likely," said Dr. Henshaw, "that within a matter of months, or a few years at the most, pills, teas, inoculation, etc. of various forms will be available for use in a variety of ways. The prospects are that fertility-control methods to fit every need and every purse will become available. Indeed, it seems likely that sex and reproduction will in reality become effectively separated." ¶Because normal liver...
Summer jobs are now Mrs. Shaw's main pre-occupation. She has had many requests for camp counselors, waitresses at resorts, and office help. Several families have asked for girls to live at their summer homes and care for children. One parent wanted a student to travel through Europe with the family, all expenses paid, to be a child's companion. The desirability of this job was offset by the departure date...
...boils down to the fact that civilized man is taught to inhibit many of his aggressive impulses. Of the father & son cases, Psychiatrist Levin says: "In the motor centers of the angry parent there is a struggle. There are excitations which are about to express themselves in an act of aggression. But there also are inhibitions, for the parent feels guilty and wants to restrain himself." Cataplexy, says Dr. Levin, is a symptom of narcolepsy (involuntary sleep). Cataplexy may occur when a man has an aggressive impulse which, because of guilt, he tries (or feels he should try) to suppress...
Philadelphia-born Bill Berns has dabbled in radio reporting, TV, agency producing, pressagentry and moviemaking. He has not yet exhausted all his ingenuity on radio, but he thinks a little programming money would help. Now that ABC has merged with United Paramount Theaters. Inc., he expects the parent company will pour about $35 million into broadcasting. "Of that," he says confidently, "I hope $1,000 will come down to me." As for TV, Berns feels radio can survive: "If TV had come before radio, radio would be hotter than ever. I can imagine a housewife saying, 'What a terrific...
...Power to the P.U.D.s. But Robinson, who started as a lineman and spent 14 years building his company, fought his bosses' plan. He won the backing of A.P. & L. s biggest stockholders, who persuaded the company to turn down the P.U.D.s, distribute Washington Water Power stock to the parent company's shareholders. Thus, the utility was put on its own (TIME, March 31, 1952). Then Private Enterpriser Robinson set out to save Puget Sound from public ownership...