Word: pill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pill, considerations of environment, the cost of education and overall economic pressures have finally caught up with the wartime and postwar baby boom. According to newly released federal statistics, the birth rate in the U.S. has declined to a level of 2.08 children per family-or just below the 2.1 plateau needed to achieve zero population growth. That marks a precipitous decline from the palmy days of 1957, when the birth rate stood at a staggering 3.8 children per family...
...Warren E. Wacker, director of UHS, said that no research has either confirmed or denied the pill's harmful effects, and that the UHS would continue to prescribe the drug...
...morning after pill--a group of synthetic estrogens effective when taken within 72 hours of intercourse--is administered by University Health Services to between 35 and 45 Radcliffe students each year. The compound used by UHS--diethylstilphosterol--differs slightly from that investigated by Nader, diethylstilbesterol...
Although the pill and other modern methods of contraception were made legal in France in 1967, evidently most of the French agree with the late President Charles de Gaulle's celebrated dictum that the pill is a mere "diversion," which the state has no obligation to provide for its citizens. Some 54% of the men said that they still practice coitus interruptus, and most of the women prefer the unreliable "rhythm method." Only 9% of the women take the pill, while some 30% of all those polled said that they are opposed to any form of birth control. Many...
...divided between young, long-haired hopefuls and aging hypochondriacs, got a good show for the $2 admission price. More than 100 exhibitors occupied booths to display vitamins, natural foods and cosmetics, home food grinders, even vibrating "massage chairs." Visitors who wandered among the displays could pick up free vitamin-pill samples, munch organic foods or drink Swedish mineral water. They could test their strength on some antique carnival machines or stare at the leotard-clad figure of Lizalotta Valesca, 70. In 1930 she was Miss Finland; today she is perhaps the world's best-preserved great-grandmother...