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...like Intercourse, Pa., Middlesex, N.J., and Blueballs, Pa. Finally the Justice Department haled Ginzburg into the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia on 28 counts of mailing obscene matter-the winter issue of Eros, a newsletter of current events on the sex front called Liaison, and The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity, a Tucson woman's clinically detailed sexual autobiography that covers her activities from...
...Despise the enemy strategically." 'wrote Mao Tse-tung in his handbook for revolutionaries, "but take him seriously tactically." Last week, drawing a bead on his enemy in the Kremlin. Mao did both...
Even a cursory glance at some of the rules in the handbook of "Student Government Association Regulations" verifies this observation...
...severe maladjustment was found among fifty-six volunteers for a drug experiment at Harvard Medical School. Although the volunteers were students and supposedly normal, they included three psychotics, twelve neurotics, three psychopaths, an alcoholic, and at least four homosexuals!" (D. Trouton & H.J. Eysenck, "The Effects of Drugs on Behavior," Handbook of Abnormal Psychology; New York, 1960.) We will return later to the question of the scientific value of results from such subjects; the immediate danger has been that drug experiences might aggravate or even consummate the instability of some student's psyche...
...major specific criticisms of the methodology of Leary and associates was directed at their failure to use placebo (dummy) control groups. The same article in the Handbook of Abnormal Psychology states, for example: "...placebo treatment is necessary, because without it we could not be sure that any effects observed in the experimental group were due to the drug and not to psychological factors such as suggestibility, expectation, and so forth." To this the questionnaire study by Metzner et al. responds: "The present study does not employ a placebo control group since the focus of interest was not the comparison...