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Pincus and Gynecologist John Rock. In San Juan, 265 women promised to take a tablet a day for 20 days each month. About 200 did so. Thus protected through 1,712 menstrual cycles, none became pregnant "despite regularly practiced copulation with no other type of contraception." The women who missed one to five tablets had two pregnancies in 282 cycles, while among those who missed six or more tablets there were three pregnancies in 151 cycles...
...Tablet Toothbrush. A tablet-form tooth cleanser called Twigger will be marketed nationally by Dallas' Lanpar Co. drug house. An effervescent tablet that can be chewed and dissolved in the mouth, Twigger was devised by Dr. D. Gale Collins, a Santa Fe dentist. Price of a box of 90 Twiggers...
...have fallen over themselves in praise. Said the London Times: "It is not possible to exaggerate the artistic value of her performance. When Miss Rosalyn Tureck plays Bach, all talk about the necessity of having a harpsichord to recapture Bach's style seems little short of nonsense." The Tablet: "Without doubt, the greatest Bach pianist of today." After last week's performance, Amsterdam's Algemeen Handelsblad said: "One could exhaust oneself in expressions of praise . . . Her interpretation sets a new norm, a standard for the style in which Bach deserves to be played today...
Shortly afterward, an editorial in the Brooklyn Tablet, newspaper of the Archdiocese, charged that one story in the altered issue was anti-Catholic. Entitled "Last Rites," the story told of a young priest called upon to administer last rites to a beautiful young girl. The priest had a minor moment of weakness, and later felt great remorse and contrition. Dean Coulton came to the defense of the story, although he admitted that many of his Catholic colleagues and friends had been offended. He felt, however, that the whole happening was an "unfortunate incident...
...most important result of the Tablet's editorial was not evident until the next issue of Landscapes approached readiness for the press. Just what happened is unknown--students say one thing, Deans another. Dean Coulton received the copy for the issue before it went to press. He claims the submission was voluntary, editors claim they were pressured into giving it to the Dean for his approval. Coulton, speaking as an individual, not a Dean, told Landscapes' staff that he found the tone of the magazine one of preoccupation with "sex, disease, and abnormality." He suggested that the material...