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Harold Holt is a Pacific man. Indeed, his favorite pastime is diving under the Pacific with snorkel and wet suit to spear fish or enjoy the submarine scenery. Often enough, that scenery includes one or another of his sheilas-in-law-the beautiful wives of his three stepsons. The Sydney-born son of a theatrical manager, Holt was a prize essayist and cricketer at Melbourne University, came to the Australian House of Representatives in 1935 and became a faithful supporter of Sir Robert Menzies during World War II. Like most Australians, Holt enlisted at the outbreak...
...punish or manipulate others. 'Our unconscious," Freud noted, "does not believe in its own death," and the man who seeks to end his life is no exception. The notes that suicides leave behind suggest that they rarely appreciate the fact that they will not be around to enjoy the fruits of their action. In analyzing 721 suicide notes collected by the Los Angeles county coroner's office, Psychologists Edwin S. Shneidman and Norman L. Farberow were struck by the many instructions, admonitions and lists of things to do that seemed to epitomize "the illogicality of the entire suicidal...
What kind of person is likely to enjoy a trip on LSD? Only the extravert, Alabama Psychiatrist Patrick H. Linton suggested last week at a regional meeting of the National Association for Men tal Health. Dr. Linton gave equal doses of LSD-25 to 14 mental patients, all men, half of whom were introspective and trying to avoid contact with the outside world, while the other half were outgoing, eager to meet people and to talk about themselves. The results were astonishingly uniform...
...Social Security, unemployment insurance and now Medicare relieve them of the once-imperative necessity of squirreling away savings for times of trouble. Installment buying has contributed to the notion of having the good things of life while you are living it, not waiting until you are too old to enjoy it. The curious result is that the modern American is in one sense much less "materialistic" than his father or his father's father. He is more interested in the use of things to give him the good life than in the possession of perdurable objects that will reassure...
...Mike Ditka [6 ft. 3 in., 230 Ibs.] stepped on it," shrugged Wilson, who regards injuries as badges of honor. "If a man comes out of a game without a bruise or a scrape," he says, "he shouldn't have been out there. Football means hitting-and I enjoy hitting people...