Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...metabolism of fats-to the point where they have been given to men in the hope of lowering their blood-cholesterol levels and protecting them against heart attacks. In fact, says the University of Miami's Dr. William N. Spellacy, their effect on cholesterol is still debatable; they seem to increase the proportion of big, "flabby" fat molecules circulating in the blood. The most consistent finding, said Spellacy, is that increased estrogen levels cause increased blood levels of triglycerides, the complex, fat-containing molecules involved in atherosclerosis and heart disease. But, Spellacy emphasized, there is as yet no evidence...
...Manhattan, at city-owned Metropolitan Hospital, Dr. Elizabeth B. Connell has had more than 1,000 women, some for as long as four years, taking a pill consisting only of chloramadinone, a progestin, every day of the year. Side effects seem to be fewer and less severe than those from pills containing estrogens, and the number of unwanted pregnancies has been negligible. The remarkable thing about these pills is that most women taking them still ovulate regularly, and so are theoretically exposed to conception. For reasons unknown, conception does not occur...
...highway and auto-safety mea sures often make the cure seem worse than the disease. Seat belts save 2,000 to 2,500 lives annually, estimates the National Safety Council; yet motorists have to be cajoled into buckling them in stead of sitting on them. New super-lighways eliminate dangerous curves and intersections while creating new hazards in the form of bridge piers, complicated cloverleafs and, not least, driver boredom. Two new devices offer relatively painless and inexpensive ways to reduce crash damage without placing new burdens on the motorist...
...Government's traditionally oblique line of attack used to be income tax violations, but big-time hoodlums have learned to keep their books in order. In the last few years, therefore, law-enforcement officials have been trying a variety of different approaches. Three-all endorsed by Nixon-seem particularly inventive and promising...
Feuer writes an attractive kind of history, all anecdote and theory. Most of the anecdotes seem rather chilling, deliberately so, but the analysis is quite original. He clearly demolishes the old notion of student politics as one episode toward modernization. Student movements plague all types of societies and generally end in chaos without a single piece of legislation or reform to call their own. Feuer invented much of this analysis in response to current student radicalism and applied it to history retrospectively, but his case is nevertheless well argued. When he applied his categories of student revolt to the American...