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...doctors seem to prescribe a pill for almost any talkative patient-for people who aren't true neurotics. But what such people often need is precisely a chance to talk." Other doctors cautioned against prescribing the pills for every patient with an emotional upset. Concludes Baltimore Psychiatrist Frank Ayd Jr.: "Although the tranquilizers are beneficial to emotionally disturbed patients, they are not a substitute for compassion, understanding, patience, an attentive ear . . . These drugs should not be prescribed as an alternative for psychiatric therapies...
...University's chapter of the AYD existed from 1948 to 1950. After its demise, no Labor Youth League chapter was formed...
...their activities time. But anti-Russian feeling was soon so high that their every move drew nation-wide publicity and student contempt. When 26 students received, in 1948, a charter for the American Youth for Democracy, papers headlined the fact that "Harvard OK's Red-Front Student Unit." AYD members were mugged by students when distributing literature in Wigglesworth Hall...
...battery of police had to be assigned to its every meeting to protect the speakers from heckling and attack. Under these pressures, the AYD folded, and the last openly Communist organization at Harvard was gone...
...spring of '49 the AYD chapter lost its charter for refusing to say who its members were. This fall the Young Republicans lost their charter because they didn't know who their officers were. The skeleton League for Democracy, despite a summer extension before rechartering, could not win back enough members...