Word: pills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monday, January 9 MR. TERRIFIC (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.). Stanley Beamish (Stephen Strimpell) is a meek service-station operator until he takes a "power pill" developed by the Government's Bureau of Secret Projects. Premiere...
...care of almost 300 physicians. Because Meniere's symptoms come and go unpredictably, evaluation of any treatment is a long and tedious process. But in a careful double-blind study, in which neither doctor nor patient knew which was the drug and which was the dummy sugar pill, Dr. Joseph C. Elia of Reno reported excellent results. Three-fourths of the time, the patients on the drug enjoyed relief from dizziness, nausea and headache; the tinnitus response was not so uniform, but still substantial...
Greater Effort. Nonetheless, the Government is moving determinedly ahead. While the U.S. birth rate has declined markedly in recent years, in part as a result of the pill, the decrease has been concentrated mainly in the higher economic and educational strata. Nearly 5,000,000 U.S. women of childbearing age are too poor and uninformed to have access to birth-control services, and the Government may well multiply its outlays fourfold in the next few years in order to reach them...
...single group is responsible, Farnsworth said, for what he calls the "fantastically unnecessary problem" about the drugs that exist today. On one hand, the medical profession has encouraged, "perhaps more than it should, the idea that for every unhappiness there is a pill to take." Within this "nation of drug takers," Farnsworth specifically blames "people who should know better, for glamorizing and romanticizing drug taking...
...will follow next year with Son of the Man and the Girl from U.N.C.L.E. It all reached a ridiculous if predictable end last week when CBS and NBC an nounced their latest replacement series -Mr. Terrific and Captain Nice. Terrific is a Milquetoast gas-station attendant who takes a pill and becomes a sort of CIA Superman. Nice is a Milquetoast chemist who takes a potion and becomes a police-department Superman. The quest for originality, in short, stops at the Nielsen lists, and fresh ideas are in as short supply as fresh talent...