Word: pill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Dr. William Bleckwenn, 69, University of Wisconsin neuropsychia-trist who, while experimenting with drugs in 1929, found that a common barbiturate, sodium amytal, if administered intravenously instead of in sleeping-pill capsule form, often acted as a "truth serum" that proved of value in the treatment of mental patients until supplanted recently by other drugs; in Winter Haven...
...operation is often done immediately after childbirth. It is technically easier then, and more convenient because the patient is already in the hospital. Surgeons' fees average around $200. Increasing use of contraceptive pills among women who can afford them may tend to cut down female sterilization. But there is no pill...
...Jane, lunchbucket, or anyone whose mind is in the soil bank. At the University of North Carolina, last year's fink is this year's squid, cull, troll or nerd. The perennial rat fink is R.F. in Southern California and mouse fink or straight arrow (a combination pill and moral paragon) in the Harvard Yard. But though a tool in Florida is a dullard, a tool in the academic machinery of M.I.T. is merely a diligent studier. A tooler at the University of Texas is a showoff, the equivalent of a cake-eater at Detroit's Wayne...
Song over Moscow, for Western audiences, is a cinematic curio, a satirical Russian musical about young love embattled by status seekers, bureaucratic bumblers and the apartment shortage. Giddy and boisterous, the film gulps down its pill of social realist picture-painting and produces some fascinating side effects. It affords a sly peek behind the Iron Curtain, and seems to take all its bows facing West...
...Developed an antiflu pill named Symmetrel (the company calls it "the first oral antiviral drug"), which is agitating the highly profitable pharmaceutical industry and could, with the Food and Drug Administration's expected approval, provide a whole new field for Du Pont...