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...remain cynical. While I have faith that the nicks on the face of America are not scars but scratches--and that scabs heal unless irritated--I wonder at the wisdom that will make many 19- and 20-year-olds "aliens" in their own country. President Carter's appeal to the Fatherland for his legitimacy evokes historic appeals to the Motherland. It's too bad you have to fight irony with irony. --L.S.G...
...treatments grow impersonal, the sales of antimedical books have risen faster than fevers. Case in point: Martha Weinman Lear's Heartsounds, now in its third week on TIME'S bestseller list. Unlike Cousins' account, it has no upbeat conclusion about the body's ability to heal itself. Sorrow unfolds from the book's opening line: "He awoke at 7 a.m. with pain in his chest...
...physician cannot heal himself. Helplessly he witnesses the indiscriminate dispensing of sleeping pills in order to give the house staff an easier night, the neglect of infections, the imperious commands made by the vertical to the horizontal. His exhausted wish is for "a rule that every doctor must spend one week a year in a hospital bed. That would change things in a hurry...
Looking for somebody to help heal his savagely divided party, Hubert Humphrey chose Muskie as his running mate in 1968. That decision almost saved the election for Humphrey. Muskie emerged as the star of the campaign because of his Lincolnesque calm and restraint. In 1972 he was considered the Democratic front runner, but he stumbled fatally while campaigning for the New Hampshire primary. Outraged by a charge in the arch-conservative Manchester, N.H., Union Leader that his wife Jane had a penchant for cocktails, Muskie stood in front of the newspaper office in a snowstorm to denounce Publisher William Loeb...
...QUESTION of blame becomes irrelevant now that the American auto indistustry is suffering from a prolonged sickness, or at least from a serious coughing spell. In addition to the economic motives for trying to heal the industry are interests of international prestige: the automobile symbolizes American technological and economic strength. Federal bail-outs, however, fail to confront the more fundamental problems of economic dislocation...