Word: timing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better." So young Cotzias went after the best, was accepted at Harvard Medical School-probably, Cotzias suggests, because no one there minded his fractured English-and was graduated cum laude. After training in neurology at the top places, Massachusetts General and Rockefeller University hospitals, Dr. Cotzias became a full-time researcher at the Brookhaven lab on Long Island, specializing in the movement and effects of trace metals in the body...
...psychiatrist at the university health center, thinks otherwise. "What the health center should be dispensing to unmarried students is advice," he says. "If students want to go beyond that, it should be their responsibility, not the university's." President Pitzer is expected to announce his decision some time after Christmas. He has ample precedent for approving the plan: according to a survey by the American College Health Association at least a dozen colleges already prescribe the pill to unmarried women under...
Instead the counselor reviews five alternatives that undoubtedly she has pondered herself-marriage, offering the child for adoption, keeping the baby, abortion and suicide-and checks her moral reaction to each alternative. Admits Bielby: "By the time a woman has decided to call us, her mind is pretty well made up that an abortion is what she wants. What we do is try to make her aware of her feelings and moral convictions. This is a moral decision, not a medical...
...head of the Vatican press office, excused the standards as "merely a rephrasing of the old rules." In point of fact, only three journalists, have had their Vatican credentials lifted in the past 18 years-and only one lost his permanently. Vatican press briefings, moreover, have increased and improved (TIME, Oct. 31). Yet some officials-among them Deputy Secretary of State Archbishop Giovanni Benelli-apparently felt the need to protect themselves against misinterpretation. Explained a Vatican insider: "Journalists today try to write like theologians, getting involved in highly controversial doctrinal matters. Any journalist who behaves irresponsibly in doing this kind...
...range of subjects with intelligence and even insight. On the David Frost Show, for example, she scored a valid point in defense of romantic love when she described the female mind as "an erogenous zone." But her observations get lost in her incessant chatter and frequent malapropisms. For a time she referred to things she found attractive as "gauche" until she finally learned that the word she wanted was "chic." Editing one of her own lines in Myra, she struck out the word "germane" and substituted "superfluous...