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...breast-cancer-awareness month gets under way, American consumers are expected to generate millions of dollars for charities by buying pink. That is clearly a good thing. But consumers who want to ensure that their dollars will really make a difference "have to do their due diligence," urges Susan Arnot Heaney, director of corporate responsibility at Avon. In other words, take off those rose-tinted glasses, ask questions and read the fine, pink print...
...knows why the treatment helps, but it usually does. Boston Psychiatrist Robert Arnot theorizes that "when an intense, hard-driving person overdrives himself, the nervous system just won't turn off; shock turns off the mind and stops the patient from thinking about whatever it is that he is preoccupied with." Other experts suggest that the shock somehow shakes up the brain so that "things fall back into their normal places." It is largely because of the lack of scientific understanding about its workings that many psychiatrists distrust the treatment...
YEAR END REVIEW: A DINNER AT HOWARD K. SMITH'S (ABC, 10-11 p.m.).* ABC correspondents gather at the Maryland home of their colleague to discuss and analyze the major news events of 1966. Among them: Edward P. Morgan, William Lawrence, John Scali, Sam Jaffe, Charles Arnot and George Watson...
...such novel practices as introducing "price leaders" to attract customers, ordering his salesgirls to don hats and crowd around neglected bargain counters. Before he died in 1934, he had begun establishing branch stores in other Australian cities and had foresightedly picked his successor: Myer's current boss, Arnot ("Harry") Tolley...
Devices and Desires, by E. Arnot Robertson (Macmillan; $3.50). Another war story, with a younger but almost as arresting heroine: 13-year-old Hebe, who after five years of wartime wandering with her refugee Dutch father, has become a kind of junior femme fatale. She loves no one, trusts no one, speaks half a dozen languages picked up along the way, lies almost as easily as she smiles, and has only one purpose: to get out of Greece and back to England and the safe, respectable provincial house where her mother's people lived. When Hebe finally leaves Greece...