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...marriage was ill-starred and the ioman Catholic wife, the former Marie Carmichael Stopes, eventually got an annulment. From years of married frustration (the church recognized her as virgo intacta), the 38-year-old doctor of science, authority on paleobotany (fossils) ind coal, drew the inspiration for a tract on what the marriage bed should be. Its title: Married Love...
...industrialists, politicians and diplomats. Their mecca was the consulting room of Dr. Sara Murray Jordan, chief of the clinic's department of gastroenterology, one of the world's most eminent woman physicians and a top authority on everything that can go wrong with the human digestive tract...
Since populous Southern California has the nation's second largest concentration of Jews, Democrats were delighted. Knowland's front-running opponent, Attorney General Edmund ("Pat") Brown, demanded that Knowland disown responsibility for use of the tract, drew only the surprisingly lame comment: "I don't think I'm called upon to agree or disagree with every piece of material that comes to my attention." All but lost in the uproar was Helen Knowland's plea that she had never known about Kamp's background-although any newspaper reader would remember his association with Gerald...
...beeves have been fattened with the aid of hormones. And when the job is done right, by adding stilbestrol (or a related synthetic, hormone-like substance) in doses of ten milligrams daily to each animal's feed, nearly all the hormone is metabolized or passes through the digestive tract. Virtually none can ever be found in the meat if the hormone feeding is stopped (as required under U.S. regulations) 48 hours before slaughter...
...already dismissed or jailed most members of the old Development Board, including the director of oil affairs, who probably knows more about the business than anyone else in the country. The present Development Minister is a 29-year-old engineer with a reputation among rebels based largely on a tract he once wrote denouncing the old board, whose plans made Iraq the most promising land of the Middle East...