Word: pills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mills also screams quite a bit, and in the pill-box Loeb Experimental Theatre this can be disconcerting to the audience as well as to his wife. But most of the high-pitched rantings are totally justified, and Mills' elaborate gestures, which would be tame for a 19th century melodrama, heighten the comedy...
Certain to be withheld from today's schedule are captain Ed Hamlin and miler Pill Crain in the distances, and hurdler Hank Hatch. Awori, who won the broad jump today, will compete in only one or two races instead of his usual three...
...grim harvest for West Germany: 3,000 babies dead shortly after birth and another 3,000 with grotesque malformations, because their mothers had taken the sleeping-pill tranquilizer thalidomide during early pregnancy. What was to become of the little victims? With legs and arms deformed or missing, some of the babies promised to be lifelong basket cases. All seemed unequipped to face their uncertain future...
Rock, a Roman Catholic, said that the pill duplicates the actions of the steroid hormone progesterone and argued that since the rhythm method depends upon the secretion of progesterone to prevent ovulation, the pills are merely "adjuncts to nature...
Although he praised Rock for presenting a correct picture of the Church's current birth control policy, he denied that the Church would approve the pill. "The Church is not opposed to birth control as such," the Cardinal explained, "but to the artificial means to control birth...