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Word: habitable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...watched it again. Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi sing the kind of Rodgers & Hammerstein music that makes you wish you were watching the Red Sox and Tigers on channel 4. CH.5. 8 p.m. Color. 3 hrs. Last of the Mohicans. (1963) An intriguing reversal of the American habit of casting white Midwesterners as Indians and foreigners provides about all the entertainment in this Mexican stab at Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking classic. Starring Jose Marco and Luis Induni. CH.5. 2:30 a.m. Color...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 5/10/1973 | See Source »

...steps, the director of the institute's psychology department, Johannes Brengelmann, and his assistant, Elisabeth Sedlmayr, divided a volunteer group of 354 heavy smokers into three teams, each of which tried a different "cure." One team was treated with psychotherapy to learn the emotional causes of their habit; the second was given a drug that is supposed to curb the urge to smoke; for the third group, the only treatment was instruction in how to apply the rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: How to Stop Smoking | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...weeks, 20% of the psychotherapy group and 30% of the drug group had kicked the habit completely or had cut down to ten or fewer cigarettes a day. By contrast, 60% of the rule followers had reached their goal. Presumably, if they want to learn to smoke again, they must now work their way backward from Rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: How to Stop Smoking | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...long been believed that experimentation with heroin is an irrevocable act that leads eventually to addiction and the criminal acts necessary to support the expensive habit. Thus it has also been assumed that the tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen who used the drug in Viet Nam have returned home as addicts, increasing the proportions of what was already a national heroin epidemic. But last week the Defense Department released a study that seemed to undermine these assumptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Heroin: A Plaything? | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...study asserts that narcotics dependence among returned veterans is no higher than it is among those who did not serve. In a finding that is bound to raise eyebrows among drug experts, the report also implies that heroin addiction, far from being incurable, is a habit that many people simply outgrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Heroin: A Plaything? | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

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