Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon himself inadvertently contributed to the national jitters by suddenly calling Vice President Gerald Ford to his Executive Office Building hideaway for an hour-long chat on Friday. The summons perhaps was intended to show that Nixon was still in control of the Administration. A day earlier, Ford had reflected the deepening national anxiety by voicing his sharpest criticism of the Administration since taking office. He deplored the "crisis of confidence" that Watergate has created and?in a pointed reference to the transcripts?said: "And while it may be easy to delete characterization from the printed page, we cannot delete...
...common element in most of the cures is group support. Explains Jim Bryan, director of therapy at Chit Chat Farms, a highly successful alcoholic treatment center west of Reading, Pa.. "We tell the patients it can be done, and you don't have to do it alone. The patients help each other get well." Half the staff-including Bryan himself-are recovered alcoholics, providing even more credence to the support they give to patients during Chit Chat's 28-day, $840 treatment. "We do not look into the whys of their drinking," says Bryan, "but how they...
...variant of the Lutheran General and Chit Chat models is the treatment center that combines group therapy and hypnotic suggestion with a behavioristic kind of aversion treatment: electric shocks or drugs to make the very odor of liquor abhorrent. At Seattle's Schick's Shadel Hospital, which offers an eleven-day, $1,500 program, each patient is taken to "Duffy's Tavern," a small room decorated with enough bottles of whisky to lubricate a regiment. The patient is given a nausea-inducing shot and then handed a glass of his favorite brand. He sniffs the aroma, takes...
...favorite American pastime will be in jeopardy if New York Telephone has its way: no more curling up with a nice phone to enjoy a chat that goes...
...down [sic]" was not the peddler's accomplice. They issued him a temporary press card and prepared to let him go. Then someone did a double take. Hastily, Princess Margaret's husband, Lord Snowdon, was whisked into Police Commissioner Philip G. Tannian's office for a chat and an apology. That was more than Tony got from Mayor Coleman Young. On a short assignment to photograph the crime-ridden city for the London Sunday Times, Snowdon asked for an interview with Young but was told the mayor had "no time...