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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Green is such a calming color that many school walls are painted "educational green" to reduce the restlessness of students. Now educational green may have to yield to an even more soothing tint: "jailhouse pink." According to Alexander Schauss, director of biosocial research at City College in Tacoma, Wash., the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Pink Clink | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

In fact, DeSisto at Stockbridge is a haven for the walking wounded. Some of the students have been beaten and abused much of their lives. At least half of them were drug users by age twelve. Others had been given up on as hopeless schizophrenics, and some of the girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Getting that DeSisto Glow | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Though DeSisto may sound like a work camp dreamed up by Dickens and Freud, it has successfully straightened out disturbed youngsters who had failed to respond to treatment elsewhere. One boy, who is due to graduate next spring, had previously been expelled from a state mental hospital as uncontrollable. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Getting that DeSisto Glow | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Margaret, 32, a California housewife, seemed in perfect health. Then, while shopping one day, she suddenly fell to the floor dead, apparently of a heart attack. Harry's demise was less unexpected; the New York stockbroker, 49, had been suffering from angina pectoris, periodic attacks of severe chest pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Big Squeeze | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

In California, 22% of the state's 3,857 county libraries have closed down, and in the past year several thousand library staffers have been sent packing. In Hartford, Conn., funds are so short that since 1968 the nine-branch public library has not been able to count and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Trouble in the Stacks | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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