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There are those-the great bulk of conservatives, much of the middle class, some businessmen and the parliamentary majority-who still resolutely believe that Heath's kill-or-cure economic strategy is the right one: meet the unions head-on and allow a few mismanaged major companies to go under. Says one young Tory M.P. with typical sangfroid: "We knew it was going to get worse before it got better." While it is getting worse, more and more of the country is losing confidence in Heath's policies. Last month's Gallup poll indicated that Labor...
...Unlike normal drinkers, who may react to anxiety by overeating, taking a walk around the block or hitting someone, the alcoholic has learned to find relief by reaching for a drink. What has been learned can be unlearned, Schaefer and Sobell insist. As proof, they point to their high cure rate, which is achieved with the aid of a harmless but painful technique: electric shocks for those who drink too much too fast...
...bartender-therapist pushes a control button. Those who are to be abstainers know that they may receive a jolt every time they order drinks and a continuous shock as long as they have a glass in their hand: they are willing to risk the punishment to effect a cure. The would-be social drinker can consume as many as three mixed drinks without a shock -as long as he takes sips and makes each drink last at least 20 minutes. The shocks come at random-the drinkers never know when they will feel pain, but they do know that...
Preliminary Results. Six months later, from 50% to 70% of the alcoholics trained to drink socially will do so or will abstain entirely. By comparison, only 10% to 20% of a group treated by conventional therapy could do the same. For the new abstainers, the apparent cure rate is 50%, compared with 20% to 25% in a control group. The researchers admit that their results are preliminary and that more patients may relapse as time goes on. But they have high hopes that many of the former alcoholics-having learned to associate drinking with real physical pain-will stay cured...
Writing about the olden days, Laura Wilder quickly snares all the incipient "how-to" book readers in her audience. A half dozen or so pages into Little House in the Big Woods, she is telling how Pa made a smokehouse out of a hollow tree to cure venison. She also describes cheese making, sod breaking, sugaring off, housebuilding (log, sod and frame), threshing, ice cutting and a hundred other practical matters. She offers assorted facts on such subjects as homestead law, horse breaking and how to manage a hoop skirt. The odd word may mystify (pieplant, claim shack, prove...