Word: polgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general use until June 1960, and not used in large numbers until a year later. Nonetheless, nearly 4,000,000 women are now using the pill, and, points out Boston's Dr. John Rock, a pioneer in birth-control development, "they're not getting pregnant." Steven Polgar, research director of the Planned Parenthood Federation, confidently credits the pill with at least one-fourth of the drop since 1961. In selected poverty areas where the pill has been distributed wholesale by social workers, results have been as dramatic as Polgar suggests. At medical centers in New York...