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...confidence motion in Parliament's history. He accused the Conservatives of "a major political fraud" in hiding last June's critical run on Canada's foreign-exchange reserves until the election was safely over, indicted the government's tight-money austerity program as the wrong cure for the country's economic ailments. Diefenbaker retorted by disclosing ordinarily secret foreign-exchange figures to argue that Liberal "gloom and doom" crying had worsened the run on the Canadian dollar, and that in fact he had hidden nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Exercise in Survival | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...Children's Hospital, every preschool child is now checked for pica, and every child with pica is checked for lead poisoning. Psychiatric social workers try to cleanse the poisonous emotional atmosphere in a pica child's home; once that is done, it is relatively easy to cure the child of pica. But if the trouble persists beyond age six, the child usually develops some other form of deviant behavior. Now the Washington researchers are checking to see whether, as they suspect, a pica child becomes easy prey to other addictions later in life, such as compulsive eating, alcoholism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hand to Mouth | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...unprecedented attack on cancer quackery, a Los Angeles judge last week imposed the maximum sentence for second-degree murder on a practitioner who took a fat fee on the false promise that he could cure a patient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Quackery & Murder | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...with the better." The answer, though skillfully expounded by Actor Mills, is less than illuminating, and the film, as a discussion of the race problem in Britain, is less than memorable. But it is sincere and careful, and it usefully reminds a many-colored humanity that the cause and cure of the race complex is everywhere the same. Fear alone builds barriers between men, and love alone can cast out fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Black & White in Britain | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...tried to tell me how I should teach." One fascinating Fuller wrinkle is a 44-question entrance exam-for parents, not children. Sample: "Do you believe it right that your child be spanked at school if he does wrong?" A "no" gets a fast rejection from Fuller, whose favorite cure for errants is whacking a child's outstretched palm with a ruler. Fuller's school is so besieged with applicants that he accepts only one out of ten. He now plans a new $100,000 school for 200 students. His current parents-doctors, lawyers, businessmen, two public-school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School with Rule | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

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