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...world of uncertainties," says Harvard's Benson, "everything from the nuclear threat to job insecurity to the near assassination of the President to the lacing of medicines with poisons." Through television, these problems loom up under our very noses, and yet, says Psychologist Kenneth Dychtwald of Berkeley, Calif., the proximity only frustrates us: "We can't fight back with those people...
Some experts do not agree I that the Holmes-Rahe scale is the best measure of personal stress. By conducting a series of surveys, Psychologist Richard Lazarus, of the University of California at Berkeley, has become convinced that the everyday annoyances of life, or "hassles," contribute more to illness and depression than major life changes. Lazarus cites a poem by Charles Bukowski to illustrate his point...
...people want to be represented by a person who is 6 ft. tall and graying at the temples," says Berkeley Criminal Lawyer Cristina Arguedas, who at 5 ft. 2 in. and 29 years is neither. Arguedas offers other qualities. Says San Francisco Attorney Ephraim Margolin: "She has very good presence, is bright as a whip, and very, very fast on her feet...
...Francisco. An itinerant laborer for much of his early life, Hoffer was widely known in the '60s through his syndicated newspaper column. He gave it up in 1970-"I don't want to die barking"-and became "conversationalist at large" at the University of California at Berkeley...
DIED. Roger J. Traynor, 83, influential chief justice of the California Supreme Court who served for 30 years on what was widely considered the nation's most aggressive and progressive state court; of cancer; in Berkeley, Calif. Appointed in 1940 and named chief justice in 1964, he wrote more than 900 opinions, many of which boldly abandoned precedents and, especially in expanding criminal defendants' rights, anticipated later federal court rulings...