Word: pills
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the Pill and other contraceptives are readily available, many women still have unwanted pregnancies because they neglect-or have no opportunity-to take precautions before intercourse. Now, the Federal Government is acting to provide help in the form of the chemical diethylstilbestrol (DES). Last week the Food and Drug Administration announced that it was in the process of clearing DBS for use as a postcoital contraceptive in certain emergency situations...
...action is not unexpected. DES, an estrogen-like substance, has been used for years to prevent pregnancy in women who take it as long as 72 hours after intercourse; it has proved an effective "morning-after" pill in tests with 1,000 University of Michigan coeds (TIME, Nov. 8, 1971). The drug has also been prescribed during pregnancy to prevent miscarriage. But, used that way, it may be dangerous. Doctors have found a high incidence of vaginal cancers in the teen-age daughters of women who took the drug. The use of DBS as a growth hormone in cattle feeds...
According to its manufacturers, methaqualone is a dependable and effective sleeping pill. Blurbs in the standard Physicians' Desk Reference attest to its "sedative and hypnotic" effects and its ability to induce prompt sleep, but warn that the drug may also produce dependency. The warning is appropriate. Though the drug may be safe if it is taken as prescribed by a physician, increasing numbers of Americans-especially on campuses and in ghettos-are obtaining the drug illegally and taking it indiscriminately. Methaqualone is rapidly becoming one of the most popular -and dangerous-drugs of abuse in the U.S. The Government...
...Bitter Pill. The toughest confrontation was between Burns and the First National City Bank of New York. Citibank's chairman, Walter Wriston, and its president, William Spencer, talked with Burns in separate arm-twisting sessions. With great reluctance, they agreed not to raise the prime rate to 6¼ as they had contemplated. The bank issued a hard-edged statement that "the base rate, which previously was determined by the free market, is now being administered by the federal authorities." All this was a particularly bitter pill for Wriston, who is a member of the Cost of Living Council...
...when possible, but humanly and at times, we hope, with humor. Says Senior Editor Leon Jaroff: "Obviously some new male-female patterns are evolving at different rates and in different guises round the world. It's a wide range of territory that will let us talk about the Pill one week and, who knows, love poetry the next." One sign of how topical the subject has become is the number of cover stories and other major articles that have already run in TIME. Kate Millett appeared on the cover in 1970 as a symbol of the feminist revolution. Last...