Word: pincus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pincus and Gynecologist John Rock. In San Juan, 265 women promised to take a tablet a day for 20 days each month. About 200 did so. Thus protected through 1,712 menstrual cycles, none became pregnant "despite regularly practiced copulation with no other type of contraception." The women who missed one to five tablets had two pregnancies in 282 cycles, while among those who missed six or more tablets there were three pregnancies in 151 cycles...
...although much of the tedium through the middle of the play can be blamed on the author's excessive repetitiveness. John Fenn, as the psychosomatically ill suitor, was amusing, although he sometimes twitched about more embarrassingly than humorously. Dick Merlo heartily fulfilled the part of the father, but Laura Pincus, as Natalia, contributed little more than her presence on the stage. Nevertheless, Marriage Proposal was moderately successful as a brief entertainment...