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...book's most unexpected findings did not come out of the homosexual research project, but from sex therapy provided for gays-itself something of a pioneering venture. Between 1968 and 1977 the researchers treated, for various sexual problems, 151 homosexuals, including 54 men and 13 women who wanted to convert or revert to heterosexuality. M & J do not list a success rate for such conversions, only a known failure rate. That failure rate is now at 35%, and is not expected to exceed 45% when all the five-year follow-ups are completed. For professional therapists, many of whom believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Masters & Johnson on Homosexuality | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...second singles match featured Martha Roberts and Yale's Kathy Dalton in the closest contest of the afternoon. Roberts took the first set easily, 6-3, playing very relaxed tennis. Dalton came back to take the second set, 7-6, grabbing the tiebreaker, 5-4, after Roberts failed to convert three match points. Using her new momentum, Dalton weny on to sweep the final...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Shut Out Netwomen; Crimson Takes One Set | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...elements of Judeo-Christianity, Islam never fully submitted to the West's power. Its various states and empires always provided the West with formidable political and cultural contestants-and with opportunities to affirm a "superior" Occidental identity. Thus, for the West, to understand Islam has meant trying to convert its variety into a monolithic undeveloping essence, its originality into a debased copy of Christian culture, its people into fearsome caricatures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Islam, Orientalism And the West | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...building and thought the notice was legal. On January 16 the University served a second notice in the language and format required by the Rent Control board, listing, as did the first, three grounds for eviction-- misrepresentation of tenancy, damage to property and the desire of the University to convert the building into a four-to-five family apartment unit...

Author: By Maxwell Gould, | Title: Tenants of 8 Mellon St. Sign Lease With Harvard | 4/11/1979 | See Source »

However, the wish to convert a building into a family unit is not sufficient grounds for eviction under rent control...

Author: By Maxwell Gould, | Title: Tenants of 8 Mellon St. Sign Lease With Harvard | 4/11/1979 | See Source »

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