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Anyone who answers most of the above in the affirmative has what Drs. Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman of San Francisco call Type A behavior. If he has not already had a heart attack, then he may be hurrying toward one. That, at least, is the conclusion of their book, Type A Behavior and Your Heart (Knopf; $7.95). Just published, the book not only helps people to determine if their behavior is hastening a heart attack but also offers some practical advice for those who want to avoid coronary complications...
Chain Reaction. Friedman and Rosenman are fully aware of the plethora of factors that contribute to the 20th century epidemic of heart disease and premature death: obesity and diabetes, high-fat and high-cholesterol diets, smoking and lack of exercise, and hereditary tendencies. But the two doctors maintain that behavior patterns are at least as important as any of the other causes and may indeed underlie some of them. For example, the Type A's instantly aggressive response to trivial slights and threats may set off a chain reaction of hormonal changes that can impair the metabolism of fats...
World Bank Economist Irving Friedman traces the problem to the widespread unemployment, bleak breadlines and political upheavals of the Depression, which was ended only by a cataclysmic world war. That experience has haunted the economic memory of the world ever since, he believes, and caused governments in effect to enter into a new social contract with their citizens under which they pledged never willingly to risk such suffering again. In the U.S. and Canada the contract has been enshrined in laws that require Washington and Ottawa to work always for the highest possible employment. In other nations the commitment...
...inflation represents a failure, and that failure breeds edginess and mistrust. In time it becomes impossible for leaders to succeed because voters demand that government deal with inflation. Yet so various and insistent are the people's other special demands for higher government spending that inflation continues. As Economist Friedman writes: "In virtually all cases of major political upheaval in the postwar period, inflation has been a common element...
...Tanya Friedman of the Med School admissions office said yesterday that it was not unusual for one House to have more successful applicants than another...