Word: chats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...including the men behind Pat and Eleanor. She began following Mrs. McGovern down the political trail during the Democratic primaries last spring. Last week, amidst a hectic schedule of campaign visits to youth groups, senior citizens, day-care centers and factories, the two sat down again for a private chat in the McGovern hotel suite in White Plains...
...There was never much money but there was always plenty of talk. "I grew up thinking that the only way one spent a Sunday afternoon was discussing politics," recalls Eleanor. Her father, a local politician who went on to become the Democratic county chairman, never missed an F.D.R. fireside chat. By the time she was 13, Eleanor could milk a cow as expertly as her father could. Soon she could milk an argument almost as well. The twins joined the high school debating team, and that is how Eleanor met George McGovern...
...ounces. On some days, the patients were offered no incentive for not drinking too much. On other days, they were told that if they restricted themselves to five ounces or less, they could work in a laundry (and earn $1 an hour), take part in group therapy, have visitors, chat with other patients and use a recreation room with games, TV and a pool table. The consistency of the results is impressive. On no-reward days, almost all of the patients drank too much. On reward days, by contrast, every one of the alcoholics proved he was able to keep...
...journeyed to Hyde Park personally to make peace when he realized that his fulminations were helping opposition to Catholic political candidates. Mrs. Roosevelt recorded the scene in a typical, ineffable column: "Miss Thompson came and said: 'Cardinal Spellman is on the porch!' We had a pleasant chat and I hope the country proved as much of a tonic for him as it always...
...many former patients, when he met old friends Crane would feel self-conscious about having been hospitalized for mental illness. According to Low's specific instructions, Crane "practiced 'averageness' by commanding my muscles to make me walk up to my friend, then shake hands, smile, and chat for a while. I proved to myself that I could look at my past mental illness in the same way I would look at pneumonia or any other physical illness...