Word: pills
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon announced another dollar devaluation, the predominant reaction throughout Western civilization was one of relief. Richard Kattel, president of The Citizens & Southern Bank of Georgia, expressed the new American mood: "I think devaluation is a good thing. It will make us more competitive overseas. We have swallowed the hardest pill we had to swallow -our pride...
...suburban Detroit, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Troppi, already the parents of seven, became apprehensive about the possibility of another pregnancy. Mrs. Troppi obtained a prescription for Norinyl, Syntex Laboratories' contraceptive pill, and her nervousness vanished. But her calm mood, she claimed, was the result of her druggist's mistake: he had given her Nardil, a tranquilizer, and Mrs. Troppi later gave birth to a son. If the Troppis can prove negligence, a Michigan court of appeals ruled, a lower court can then order the druggist to pay damages. In computing the amount, the appeals bench said...
...their children to the care of their husbands. Besides, running away has become financially easier. Women have more education and can more readily find jobs. They are more affluent, so they can afford to flee by plane or in the family's second car. They also have the Pill-and the prospect of easier divorce. "Years ago," Investigator Gold-fader sums up, "a girl could run only to Mama, who would have told her to go home. Now, chances are that not even Mama's home...
Today's children are reaching sexual maturity earlier than previous generations. Many parents are responding by condoning early dating, and some are even encouraging use of the Pill by girls barely into their teens. That kind of permissiveness can have unhappy consequences, according to Manhattan Psychoanalyst Peter Bios. In the current issue of Daedalus, he insists that youthful behavior need not follow biology, and that "a prolongation rather than an abbreviation of childhood" is imperative...
...hair down to here, because they are doing their own thing." U.S. Author Leon Uris (Exodus, Topaz) was sounding off in Sydney, Australia-a stop on a round-the-world tour to gather material for his eighth book. "Society's chief curse," carped Uris, is the birth control pill. "Sex has become such an open commodity that it has lost a lot of the affection a man and a woman should have for each other. By the age of 24 or 25, girls have had the romance bashed out of them. It is the age of the dirty...