Word: clinicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...militant Vien Hoa Dao group that tried to overthrow the government last spring), and fully 30 are Catholics, who make up only 10% of the population. That was enough to end the 100-day fast of militant Buddhist Leader Thich Tri Quang. From his quarters in a Saigon maternity clinic, Tri Quang promptly labeled the election a fraud. Then he ate a banana...
...Margaret Sanger opened the nation's first birth control clinic in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. On the first day, 150 pram-pushing women from the neighborhood lined up to pay the 10? registration fee. Nine days later, the clinic was raided by policemen and-a particularly galling circumstance to her-policewomen...
...with hostility." Heatly took down only one direct quote of Whitman's?that he was "thinking about going up on the tower with a deer rifle and start shooting people." That did not particularly upset Heatly; it was, he said, "a common experience for students who came to the clinic to think of the tower as the site for some desperate action."* Nonetheless, Heatly urged Whitman to return the next week to talk some more. Charlie Whitman never went back. Instead, some time in the next few months, he decided...
Some critics fear that early instruction, like an overdose of vitamins, can be harmful. Dr. Paul J. Kinsella, director of the Developmental Reading Clinic at Lake Forest, IIl., figures that a young child's hearing and seeing are so disorganized that parental pressure to read may only confuse him or cause emotional blocks that would permanently impair his reading. Dr. Evelyn Pitcher, chairman of child study at Tufts University, recalls a four-year-old girl who could read, but "all other aspects of her development were neglected. She did not want to play, was not popular, and withdrew into...
Died. Wellington Rankin, 81, Montana lawyer-rancher and younger brother of Jeanette Rankin, first U.S. Congresswoman (1917-19), who amassed one of the nation's biggest landholdings (900,000 acres of ranchland); following abdominal surgery; at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn...