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Karl Augustus Menninger, M.D., celebrated his 80th birthday at a monstrous bash last week. Like many another octogenarian, he spent much of the next day rocking in his chair. But this was no porch rocker; it was the spring-backed executive chair in the busy Chicago branch office of the Menninger Foundation, an umbrella organization for a multitude of psychiatric services. By 11 a.m. Menninger had already conferred with a number of people, including a publisher who is bringing out one of his three books for 1973. Besides a technical work, Theory of Psychoanalytic Technique (Basic Books; $7.95), rewritten with...
...full term. Harry Truman walked in, wearing an ice-cream suit that only a haberdasher from Missouri would choose for the occasion-and brought the dispirited convention cheering to its feet. He announced that he was calling a "Turnip Day" session of what he had labeled the "do-nothing" 80th Congress to give it a chance to enact its own Republican program...
Novelist-Journalist Rebecca West celebrated her 80th birthday by receiving an editor of the Sunday Telegraph, who asked her, predictably, about Women's Lib. "On the whole, I am with it," said Dame Rebecca. Nothing else that she said was in any way predictable. On women writers: "They seem hopelessly defeated by their domesticity. When I turn their pages, I see not just a pram in the hall but a whole house filled with prams, prams sideways up the stairs, prams in the back garden." On women at work: "The population is divided into people who like work...
Crackdown. Last week, the Croatian capital of Zagreb was bedecked with flower-adorned busts and portraits of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, honoring him on his 80th birthday. But beneath the show of loyalty was a simmering political crisis. Croats are still paying heavily for an outburst of nationalist feeling that reached a climax last fall when 30,000 students went on strike in Zagreb. Seizing upon Tito's experimental program of decentralization, which offered a measure of political and fiscal autonomy to Yugoslavia's six republics, Croatian nationalists demanded their own army and airline, and separate membership...
...common good. Yet the ceremonial show of civility, demanded by custom, will scarcely conceal the fact that this is an election year, and that relations between the Hill and the White House are at a peak of partisanship unmatched since Harry Truman ran against a "do-nothing" 80th Congress...