Word: elkins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first to spot the invasion in the South was retired Textile Worker Hugh Salmons, who on May 9 saw the glistening bodies on the willow oaks in his front yard in Elkin, N.C. The next morning, Judy Carpenter, 32, of Blairsville, Ga., was in the backyard playing softball with her daughter when she saw the intruder, its red eyes glinting in the sun and its clawed front feet pulling it through the grass. Within 24 hours she had collected 21 of them in a jar from the rhododendron bush in front of the house...
Those of us who wander across this country -- hard-core itinerants, escapees from a Stanley Elkin fiction, a ragtag of peddlers, truckers, journalists, compulsive tourists -- meet in flyspecked cafes off the interstates and gossip about the cities that are our temporary destinations...
...four--Jeannine Pinto, 24, Christopher Gray, 35, John Hamilton, 33, and Deborah Elkin, 34,-- are not students at Yale. They were arrested during an April 22 protest...
...only a six-page summary of initial findings has been released. Describing the interim results last week at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting in Washington, the coordinator of the project at NIMH, Irene Elkin, said there is no evidence that drug treatment is any more effective than cognitive behavior therapy or interpersonal psychotherapy. Those therapies were chosen because they are commonly used for depression and can be readily taught to therapists from official manuals. Says Morris Parloff, a retired psychologist who helped frame the study: "We picked them because they are brief and very definable, from different approaches...
...beneficial than the therapy itself. The way to catch any such brief psychological boost is in follow-up studies. The NIMH project is testing patients after six, twelve and 18 months, with the end of the tests due by December. Three-quarters of these results are already in, but Elkin has not looked at them yet. She says she has her hands full just examining the treatment data...