Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remember the fierce black flies in the summer and the rug hung in the doorway to keep out the cold in the fall. They had no electricity TV telephone or running water. The Swensons drilled a well When money ran low, both women picked potatoes even though they were pregnant. The youngest Swenson child was born in the family car by the side of the road on the way to a hospital in Presque Isle 40 miles away. Eventually, the couples moved to nearby Masardis. Dr Moore began practicing in the area, and Swenson found work teaching at the University...
...Angel. Sinuously tempting and later sneering with triumph, Abrams is so much more convincing that her heavenly counterpart that it's easy to figure out why this Faustus opts for hell. Jenny Marre is enticing in several cameo roles--she plays everyone from Belzebub to a lisping, pregnant duchess--but she's a bit too pudgy as Helen of Troy...
...object of a good birth-control program, says Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of UHS, is to see to it that those women who do not want to get pregnant, don't. Harvard's low-keyed decentralized program which offers the information without blitzing students with its presence, suits Wacker fine, because, he says, for the most part UHS accomplishes the objective. "Yale has a very active program of sex-counseling on campus; ours is not as vigorous," Wacker says. "But there is no higher rate of unwanted pregnancy, though, here...
...Bisbee advises: "What we say is that there is no connection between the pill and cancer." As for the diaphragm, Harvard's other most popular method, Wacker says, when used properly it is "good" but that "you still run the risk of a .5 per cent chance of getting pregnant...
Bisbee explains the switch by saying, "Some women don't want to put chemicals in their bodies. They would rather trade a small chance of getting pregnant for no chance of illness" in later life. Dr. Paul Winig '62, a gynecologist in the UHS, who treats students, faculty and other University employees, hazards that only a little more than 50 per cent of the women he sees are still using the pill...