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...slim, blonde, pregnant 16-year-old stubbornly clung to her story. Sally insisted that she was still a virgin. Many a doctor might have exploded. But Dr. Arthur Roth, 37, knows and likes adolescents too well for that. As founder of the five-year-old Teen-Age Clinic at Kaiser Foundation Medical Center in Oakland, Calif., Roth is an expert in a new medical specialty - "ephebiatrics" - that closes the gap between specialized treatment for children and for adults. Last week, having discovered the family causes of Sally's mental block-building, he persuaded her to go to the obstetrician...
Delegates of the 850,000 Southern Presbyterians who call themselves the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. wrangled over two controversial issues at their 98th General Assembly last week in Charlotte, N.C. They took a new position on divorce, clung stubbornly to their stand against segregation...
Twelve treatments were enough. Smith and Hale reported that each group had its social order turned upside down. Its top hen became its bottom hen. In two out of three groups, the bottom hen rose to the top. In all groups, the upper middle-class hen-No. 2-clung most tenaciously to its position. The No. 25 needed twice as many shocks as the others to accept a new place in society...
John and Frances Gunther's first brush with death came in 1929, when their only daughter Judy died at four months of a glandular ailment. In April 1946 they learned that their only son, then 16, had a brain tumor. For 15 months Johnny, a lively, charming youngster, clung heroically to life and sanity. Though Frances (who now lives in Jerusalem) had divorced Gunther in 1944, they fought an agonizing side-by-side battle for Johnny's life. In desperation they consulted more than 30 doctors, tried such extreme treatments as intravenous mustard-gas injections, which had never...
Powerful Sanctions. What causes the difference? One theory, notes Yale Sociology Professor Charles R. Snyder in Alcohol and the Jews (Free Press, Yale Center of Alcohol Studies; $5), was advanced by Philosopher Immanuel Kant: he thought that Jews clung to moderation for fear of incurring censure from the society surrounding them. A more convincing theory, Snyder believes, is the Jewish emphasis on food, "so that 'compulsive' eating is more likely to be selected as a means of alleviating psychic tensions [than] addictive drinking." He cites one psychological study showing that Jewish mothers' anxiety about their children...