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...reverse, i.e., the masking of disturbance by adolescence the goal of all interventions with adolescents, then should be to strengthen and confirm them in their development. Some adolescents may need special help, but the purpose of this help should not be to "cure" them of their "illness" (much less of their adolescence); rather it should be to restore to the adolescent his capacity to proceed in his growth without special help. Too much help can be enfeebling, just as too much understanding without respect can be undermining. Even today, much of what passes for "counseling" of adolescents ends up short...
...often amused when sports people get nervous about having a feminine reporter around. Some hockey public relations men tried to keep her away from the players "because their language is so terrible and these men would be embarrassed to have a girl hear it." She heard enough to confirm the point: the players' language is terrible. Key man on our Sport team is Charles Parmiter, who has been writing the section since 1961 and whose application of talent to subject matches the intensity of Bobby Hull devoting himself to hockey...
...afternoon, President Johnson met with his top advisers and the National Security Council, and began considering the possibility of an air strike against the enemy boats and their bases. Meanwhile frantic messages were asking Task Force 72.1 whether an engagement had taken place at all. "Can you confirm absolutely that you were attacked?" asked Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet from Honolulu. "Can you confirm sinking of PT boats? Desire reply directly supporting evidence...
...exercises. Even joggers can ask for trouble. "The distance some of them go scares me," says Dr. Richard Morrison, who presides over a heart-conditioning program for West Coast executives. "Long distances can make your knees arthritic or give you shin splints." Recent studies at the University of Saskatchewan confirm earlier suspicions that some of the so-called isometric exercises can impose dangerous demands on the heart...
...finding a happier home in the U.S. Boutiques carrying Courreges frocks at prices ranging from $200 to $500 have opened to sensational applause at Sakowitz Bros, in Houston and Bonwit Teller in New York. Bonwit's peddled 150 outfits the first day, leading Andre to confirm that he will spend six months a year in the U.S. "The American way of thinking," he noted, "corresponds...