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...increase, Reagan argued, is a bitter pill the nation must swallow to keep economic ills from worsening. He conceded at a Republican rally in Billings, Mont., that budget deficits are at the core of the problem. (Even if Congress approves the tax bill and adds $21 billion in fiscal 1983 revenue, the deficit is expected to be as high as $150 billion.) "For a conservative President like me to have to put his arms around a multibillion-dollar deficit is like holding your nose and embracing a pig," the President admitted. But the way to get a grip...
After chastity slouched off into exile in the '60s, the sexual revolution encountered little resistance. Indeed, in the age of the Pill, Penthouse Pets and porn-movie cassettes, the revolution looked so sturdily permanent that sex seemed to subside into a simple consumer item. Now, suddenly, the old fears and doubts are edging back. So is the fire and brimstone rhetoric of the Age of Guilt. The reason for all this dolor: herpes, an ancient viral infection that can be transmitted during sex, recurs fitfully and cannot be cured. Also known as the scourge, the new Scarlet Letter...
...active?starting younger, marrying later, divorcing more often. The wider acceptance of oral sex has also played a role. Richard Hamilton, a San Francisco family physician and author of The Herpes Book, thinks science has wrought the herpes epidemic: penicillin allowed greater sexual contact with little risk, and the Pill and other contraceptives largely replaced condoms, which prevent direct contact with sores...
...veteran of many amateur plays, I cherish the excitement of performing. It's exhilarating. I can't imagine taking a pill to diminish its effect...
Reader Walter Jowers [June 14] should know that we who sired his generation endured the Depression, worked our way through college (no Government loans then), served in at least one war, raised and educated large families (the Pill arrived a bit late for us), stuck to often dull and difficult jobs (nobody told us we should be dropping out, doing our own thing, and fulfilling our own needs), cared for our aging parents and paid into Social Security for 30 years. Now in our golden years, we are finding ourselves accused of greed and selfishness. What a deal, indeed...