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...moral de-authoritization of the older generation so essential to the rise of a student movement never emerged." He spoke a moment too soon. It was all coming together: the escalating, attention-getting tactics of the civil rights movement; the new wholesale liberation through the birth-control pill from traditional sexual patterns; and the growth of a hedonistic, re-programming counter-culture among the young...
...barbiturates and alcohol may do. They are derived from benzodiazepine, a chemical whose tension-reducing qualities were discovered by scientists at Roche's U.S. laboratory in Nutley, N.J. While the precise working of the drug remains a mystery, it is known that about 20 minutes after a Valium pill is swallowed, the drug reaches tiny receptors located in the brain's emotion control centers, where it has a calming effect on the central nervous system that may last several hours...
...associated with shortened life spans. Prettying up? It seems that some hair dyes, among other cosmetics, contain malignant agents. Need ex ercise? Take heed that middle-aged joggers are constantly fall ing dead on the side roads. Feeling sickly? Steer clear of sur-gery-mongering doctors. Taking a pill? Make sure it will not hook you. Worried about cancer? That very worry may cause cancer, some say. Anybody thinking of fleeing might peruse an other recent book, this one by Dr. Robert A. Shakman. Its title: Where You Live May Be Hazardous to Your Health. Its implicit message...
...successor Pius XII in 1951 approved the "rhythm method" of birth control. Pius XII also stated that "medical, eugenic, economic and social" motives could justify couples in limiting the size of their families. Nine years later the approval for marketing birth control pills raised the hope that such biochemical controls would be regarded as "natural" by the church. Pope John XXIII appointed a special commission to examine the matter. Its confidential, but later leaked, majority report to Paul VI in 1966 warned against avoiding childbearing for selfish reasons. Going beyond Pius XII's position, however, the report called...