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That group admission of guilt was inspired by a 48 -page pamphlet rather innocuously entitled Birth Control Handbook. Princeton's Sex Education Counseling and Health Program (its barbaric acronym: SECH) had distributed some 6,000 copies in dormitories. What outraged conservative students and alumni was not the pamphlet's routine discussion of anatomy, conception, contraceptives and abortion but its fiery introduction. The opening pages denounced the population-control movement as an instrument of U.S. imperialism in the Third World. The introduction also blamed urban ills on "America's white ruling class" and pollution on consumers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sex and Mao At Princeton | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

After considering several pamphlets, SECH concluded that the Handbook was not only the cheapest available (4½? per copy compared with $1 for others) but that its medical content was the best. "It's a very complete, succinct and medically sound book," says SECH's director, Dr. Louis A. Pyle. The committee decided that controversy over the pamphlet's introduction could be avoided by disavowing, in a covering flyer, the "wornout S.D.S. rhetoric of the late 1960s." But before distributing the Handbook in March-seven months after approving it-SECH forgot to staple in the planned disclaimer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sex and Mao At Princeton | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...DOROTHY M. SECH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 16, 1965 | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

...Force, and Will Stockdale (Andy Griffith) is a pippin. The hillbilly is so dumb he thinks R.O.T.C. is a disease; but he like to bust, he's that crazy about "thuh Ayuh Fowerce." After his first visit to the mess hall, he happily hollers, "Nevah had sech a fill a beans in mah whole lahf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 2, 1958 | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...varmints thet lit thet fire hope to hell it'll burn down th' good life in this hore coutnry, 'spite of th' Const'tution, th' Bill o' Rights an' our states' rights an' all sech. My great gran'pappy he'p'd build this country, too. He wuz wounded oiver there on Rev'lutionary Ridge, righ here in Concord, Buried over in Sleepy Holler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A VARMINT IN THE VERNACULAR | 3/17/1954 | See Source »

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