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...more women went to work and more babies went into day care, experts began to re-examine the question. One problem quickly emerged: how to measure the emotional well-being of a child too young to be interviewed. The answer, devised in 1969 by University of Virginia Psychologist Mary Ainsworth, was the strange-situation test, usually conducted on children twelve to 18 months old. It consists of a series of episodes in which the child is alternately visited and left by its mother and by a stranger, culminating with the stranger's departure and the mother's return. The researcher...
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...couple who dropped out, Peter and Lindsay Ainsworth, could not agree more. The Ainsworths-he is a former union official, she is a hairdresser and yoga teacher-are vegetarians, and nettled their fellow Iron Agers by refusing to kill animals or eat meat. Lindsay resented some of the restrictions. One rule barred beverages between mealtimes, because there was no evidence that Iron Age people snacked...
...Judge J. Robert Elliott last September threw out Army Lieut. William Calley's conviction for his part in the 1968 My Lai massacre. Last week 13 judges of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected Elliott's conclusion about news coverage. Otherwise, wrote Judge Robert A. Ainsworth Jr., "the inevitable results would be that truly heinous or notorious acts would go unpunished." Besides, he added, the members of the Calley court-martial panel were scrupulously examined for their ability to be fair and open-minded. Five appeals judges believed Calley was unconstitutionally denied access to the findings...
...Unwanted Group." The mood is strikingly similar to that of the 1950s Silent Generation, in that today's students are chiefly concerned with their own personal lives. Says Senior Steve Ainsworth, 21, former editor of the Daily Bruin, the student newspaper at the University of California at Los Angeles: "The mood is, 'I'm here for me.' The kids are preoccupied with going into the mainstream of economic life...