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Looking at the cold statistics in the record books, U.S. Olympic Track Team Chairman Pincus Sober said: "We will face an uphill struggle to amass as many gold medals as we did in Helsinki (14) in 1952 or at Melbourne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Trial by Fire | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

Some Congressmen, reported Newsmen Walter Pincus and Don Oberdorfer, took wives along on business trips and in many cases absorbed the extra costs as legitimate expenses, while others apparently used flimsy excuses for making official trips, frequently paid for personal purchases out of their expense money, and did not always make proper reimbursements. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Accounts Receivable | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Regulating Pregnancy | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Three One-Act Plays | 4/22/1955 | See Source »

...Hoagland & Pincus thought that fatigue might be reduced by feeding men a steroid substance to counteract their losses. They found that pregnenolone, a synthetic steroid, seemed to do the trick. They have not determined just how it works, but when 50 milligrams of pregnenolone were given per day, efficiency and stamina generally improved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fatigue Fighter | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

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