Word: pills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Talk of the Pill. Some girls are bothered to the point of consulting analysts when they find that having an affair makes them uneasy; since everyone is telling them that sex is healthy, they feel guilty about feeling guilty. Some girls, says an Atlanta analyst, "are disturbed because they are no longer able to use fear of pregnancy as an excuse for chastity." In many parts of the country, physicians
...development is the oral contraceptive pill, widely used and even more widely discussed both at college and at home. A considerate boy asks a girl politely, "Are you on pills?" If not, he takes the precautions himself. Current joke definition of a good sport: A wife who keeps taking the Pill even when her husband is away...
BIRTH CONTROL: HOW? (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). The religious implications of oral contraceptives are debated by Roman Catholic Dr. John Rock, codeveloper of the first pill, and some of his critics. Color...
...already survived a boat's capsizing in Barcelona, a flood while on location in Toledo, and is getting ready for the big tent-fire scene at Madrid's Retire Park. So she heads for the Club de Campo with her 18-19 handicap to bash the pill around when she gets to relax. The flaming red hair is strawberry-blonde now, and her film role casts her as the mother of Claudia Cardinale. But the erstwhile Sadie Thompson still has the gams to make shorts worth wearing...
...from the University of Michigan. When he took over as president in 1936, he prescribed a strong tonic to make the Skokie, III., company grow. He trimmed its product line from 800 to 16 quality items. The list has since grown to 30, and now includes Enovid, a contraceptive pill whose booming international sales have also boosted the sale of other Searle products. Last year the company earned $13.8 million on sales of $56 million; it now sells in 100 countries. Last week stockholders approved the third stock split in 13 years, making a share that sold...