Word: pills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOHN BRYANT fought through the fuzz of last night's sleeping pill as the 7 a.m. newsman, activated by the clock-radio, flicked through the details of yesterday's muggings, liquor-store holdups and sniper attacks. John groped for the light switch-and inadvertently brushed against the "panic button" on the $700 Tel-Guard alarm console connected to his telephone. Obediently, the system silently dialed the operator and automatically began repeating a recorded message: "Emergency at 250 Lincoln Street. Emergency at 250 Lincoln Street...
...column of marchers then black-flagged their way down to the Lampoon building in Freedom Square where the magazine was rolling a huge birth control pill down Bow Street specifically, for the benefit of a television news camera crew. X, without explanation, halted this demonstration and demanded an end to the English department at Harvard. The ibises and narthexes of the Lampoon got very upset about this; but the newsmen were even more so. They threatened to leave if their news wasn't allowed to proceed as it had been about to. The cameras were consequently allowed to roll amid...
Five leading drugmakers swallowed a bitter pill last week. In a surprise move, they offered to pay $120 million to settle treble-damage claims against them for allegedly rigging the price of a widely used antibiotic, tetracycline. While proposing the settlement, the five companies-American Cyanamid, Chas. Pfizer, Bristol-Myers, Upjohn and Squibb Beech-Nut-asserted that they "have not violated the antitrust laws...
Peter Yates, the British director who began filming John & Mary in Manhattan last week, calls it a "contemporary love story." It begins where romantic movies used to end?with the snuggling in the percales. After that, the script lightly flicks such switched-on subjects as astrology, hippies, fags, the Pill, Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend, May-September adultery, cinéma vérité film makers and, just for laughs, itself. From time to time, for example, it underlines the dialogue with subtitles...
...Reformation. William's picture is still painted on the red brick wall of many a Protestant home in Belfast, along with slogans like "No Pope Here." Protestant extremists have taken lately to insulting Catholic women with a new shout: "Ee-aya-addio, you can't take the pill...