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What Hit Him? But whiplash should not be so lightly dismissed, insist Drs. Robert Leopold and Harold Dillon of the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Neurology and Psychiatry. In a study of 47 whiplash victims, Drs. Leopold and Dillon found a considerably higher incidence of actual physical injury (14 "severe" cases, 26 "moderate") than did Dr. Threadgill...
Threatened Control. The human personality is peculiarly vulnerable to the shock of a sudden assault from behind, argue Drs. Leopold and Dillon. This, they theorize, may trigger a "denial mechanism" that prevents the victim from coming to terms emotionally with the meaning and discomfort of his injury. They add: "The fact that the head and neck are the sites of injury adds to this distortion . . . almost as if the ego unconsciously perceives that the control (head) can be severed from the body. It is our thesis that the whiplash injury is psychologically unique in that both its suddenness...
...last week-and Harris was swiftly fired. At that point, to the utter astonishment of all, the Yankees made a move that seemed as though General Motors had been delivered into the hands of a Keystone Cop. As their new manager, the Yankees chose baseball's buffoon: Charles Dillon ("Casey") Stengel...
...excitement, Charlie Ravenel was almost forgotten. He limped into the crowded Dillon Field House long after the game had ended and most of the players bad departed. Nobody seemed to notice...
...amazed--and in so saying I believe I am speaking for baseball fans, sports lovers, scholars, humanists, and freethinkers everywhere--by the ignominious treatment suffered by Charles Dillon (Casey) Stengel at the hands of his employers, the New York Yankees...