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...born with it, Young learned negotiation early as a black child in New Orleans: "I was taught to fight when people called me nigger. That's when I learned that negotiating was better than fighting." Young's parents (his father was a dentist, his mother a schoolteacher) taught him to read before he was of school age, so he entered elementary school in the third grade. At 19, he was graduated from Howard University, where he was a premedical student. A newly awakened social awareness then steered him toward the Congregational ministry...
Total Recall. Part II is set in Venezuela. Papillon becomes an honest citizen. He marries and works variously as gold prospector, nightclub manager, fireman, bush-league dentist, commercial shrimp fisherman. More than 20 years pass. It is 1967. He is over 60 now, and down on his luck. He reads a book of prison memoirs by an Algerian-born lady ex-con named Albertine Sarrazin. Hastily, he buys 13 school notebooks. In a few months, apparently with near total recall, he scribbles Part I (1931 to 1945) in longhand and mails it to Sarrazin's editors in Paris. Called...
Retired Cape Town Dentist Philip Blaiberg lived longer than any other heart-transplant patient, 191 months. But last week his 22-year-old daughter Jill belittled her father's borrowed time and blasted the operation and Surgeon Christiaan Barnard. "I personally think heart transplants are not worthwhile. I saw my father suffer." She blamed Dr. Barnard for urging the family to make money out of the operation. The resultant publicity, she said, "set my life back by more than two years...
...Former HEW Secretary John Gardner wants to see "midcareer clinics to which men and women can go to re-examine the goals of their working lives and consider changes of direction. I would like to see people visit such clinics with as little self-consciousness as they visit their dentist." As Psychiatrist Robert Butler puts it: "Perhaps the greatest danger in life is being frozen into a role that limits one's self-expression and development. We need Middle Starts and Late Starts as well as Head Starts...
...graduated amounts, usually until he confesses or-passes out. Another technique is "the telephone," in which the torturer continuously slaps the prisoner on the ear with a cupped hand, often rupturing the eardrum. A failed dental student, now a Rio policeman, has refined still another technique. The "mad dentist," as he is known, straps a prisoner into his dentist's chair, drills until he hits a nerve and keeps probing until the victim agrees to cooperate. Then he fills the cavity, leaving no outward evidence...