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Actor Dave Madden: "My fiancée just found out she's been taking aspirins instead of the Pill. She doesn't have a headache...
...reserved for a cocktail-party sequence, featuring Laugh-In's regular cast of kooks, and a segment with hoked-up newscasts. On last week's show, for example, Rowan reported this bulletin of the future: "Vatican, 1988. The church today finally approved the use of the Pill. The announcement was made by Pope Le Roy . . . Junior. His father was not available for comment. His mother, the former Sister Mary Catherine reached at Gluck's Hillside in the Catskills, would only say, 'We like to think of the Pill as St. Joseph Aspirin For Children...
...protest the stunt Lampoon members will roll a six-foot replica of a birth-control pill from Harvard Square to the Boston Common. On the Common, LaFarge explained, they will detonate the pill to dramatize the Lampoon's "angry dissatisfaction with parody-parodies of Life...
...vast majority of cases of Parkinson's disease, or "shaking palsy," physicians cannot be sure what originally caused the nerve damage that results in the patient's tremor, muscle rigidity, forward-falling posture, hasty gait and "pill-rolling" movements of the fingers. As with most diseases of which the basic causes are unknown, there is a yard-long list of drugs that have been tried; some give modest relief, but all fall far short of cure. Even radical brain surgery usually relieves only some of the symptoms. Now a new drug has been found that is more effective...
...deforming effects of thalidomide on unborn children have been known for almost seven years, and the drug's manufacturers are even now on trial in Alsdorf, Germany (TIME, Sept. 6). Still, no one has been able to explain just what it was in the tranquilizer-sleeping pill that produced seal-flipper limbs in children. Last week a German-born investigator with a grandfatherly manner was finally able to pinpoint to the American Chemical Society how thalidomide did its damage...