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Guardian Role. A factor in many of the "accidents" was a maternal ambivalence toward the burned child. Of the 46 mothers involved in the study, 44 were preoccupied at the time with some "unresolved problem" that tended to distract them from their guardian role. Nineteen, for instance, confessed that they had not wanted to bear the child who had been burned. Twenty-one classified their attitude toward their husbands as "distant, indifferent or hostile." Only three in the control group felt that...
...anonymous scientist, who is a bachelor, had been living and working for weeks at a time on a remote island; no women were on hand to distract him. In these monastic circumstances, he soon noticed an intriguing phenomenon: his beard was growing less rapidly than normal. Furthermore, on the day before each of his periodic returns to the mainland and reunions with a receptive female (also unidentified), his facial hair began to sprout at a prodigious rate. The implications were staggering. Could the mere thought of sex stimulate a darker 5 o'clock shadow...
Adults who yearn to clip the nation's longhairs keep running into a formidable obstacle: the U.S. Constitution. Take the school officials in Williams Bay, Wis., who insist that boys with shoulder-length locks distract other students from their studies. Last year the officials ordered two hairy boys, Thomas Breen, 17, and James Anton, 19, to get , haircuts or get expelled. Spurning both choices, the shaggy ones asked a federal district court to declare the order unconstitutional. When the court obliged, the would-be clippers continued their fight right up to the Supreme Court...
Last week the high court, perhaps too concerned with hairier matters, refused to hear the Wisconsin case and let the lower court rulings stand. The result is a victory for individuality. According to the district court, the Wisconsin school officials failed to prove that longhairs truly distract other students in this hirsute era. As to whether long hair expresses something offensive to others, the court reasoned, that something is still within the First Amendment. Shagginess is not obscenity, for example. Said the court: "Freedom to wear one's hair at a certain length or to wear a beard...
Both writers cite small acts of compassion by some of Charlie Company's G.I.s while the killing went on all around them. One soldier saw three children peek from some brush where they were hiding, motioned them to lie flat. Several G.I.s shouted to distract a soldier just as he was about to shoot an elderly woman. About the only heroic figure in the mad morning was Lieut. Hugh Thompson, a helicopter pilot who marked spots where he saw wounded children and women so that ground troops could provide medical aid. He was astonished and furious when...