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...Pink Ribbon. The council points out that, even in this permissive age, some bizarre misconceptions about contraception persist. "One woman thought she'd avoid getting pregnant by jumping up and down after intercourse," the leaflet notes. "Others believe that they won't get pregnant if they stand up during intercourse." As a result, 120,000 unwanted babies are born each year in Britain; in 1969, one bride in five was pregnant at the time of her marriage. That point is amply illustrated in the leaflet by a picture showing a very pregnant young woman in a white wedding...
...Mayor's "blue ribbon" committee of tenants, landlords, and neutrals recommended a well qualified man, Eugene Underwood of New York City's housing program, to the manager three weeks ago. Last week they submitted two more names to the manager, but so far City Manager John Corcoran has taken no action to interview or appoint any of these men. His office states that he has tried repeatedly to interview Mr. Underwood but that Mr. Underwood seems to be unavailable much of the time. Certainly he must have been available once in three weeks...
...limitations are similar to those Yale President Kingman Brewster asked for last Fall. Brewster asked Yale trustees to create a blue ribbon committee to review his own tenure at Yale and consider alternatives to the "lifetime" appointment procedure that has guided Yale and Harvard in the past. This Fall, the Yale committee gave Brewster a unanimous vote of approval...
...after row of shacks are built on stilts and often are constructed from sheets of rolled beer cans. One family lives with hundreds of Miller High Life emblems as the facade of its house, while a neighbor may prefer the hues of Pabst Blue Ribbon or Budweiser. Beneath many of these dwellings flow canals whose black waters reek of raw, pungent sewage. In the shacks, which have no electricity and little furniture, adults and children sleep side by side in a single room usually measuring no more than 8 ft. by 10 ft. Even so, they are lucky. Other residents...
When President Nixon last year appointed his special "Blue Ribbon Panel" to study organization and operations of the Defense Department, he asked the members to be unsparing in their criticism. He has no reason now to be disappointed. The group, chaired by Gilbert Fitzhugh, the cruelly candid board chairman of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., came out last week with one of the most sweeping -and critical-studies of a U.S. Government department ever undertaken. The result of a full year's work, the three-pound, 237-page report contains 113 recommendations and forms a blueprint for the total administrative...