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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...
...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...
...Pill, considerations of environment, the cost of education and overall economic pressures have finally caught up with the wartime and postwar baby boom. According to newly released federal statistics, the birth rate in the U.S. has declined to a level of 2.08 children per family-or just below the 2.1 plateau needed to achieve zero population growth. That marks a precipitous decline from the palmy days of 1957, when the birth rate stood at a staggering 3.8 children per family...
...Warren E. Wacker, director of UHS, said that no research has either confirmed or denied the pill's harmful effects, and that the UHS would continue to prescribe the drug...