Word: help
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...felt he wanted to make a gesture of this sort," said a palace spokesman. But the troubled Exchequer will get no great boost from the gift, which comes on Nov. 14, Charles' 21st birthday. While Charles was a minor, most of the ducal income was used to help pay Queen Elizabeth's annual salary of $1,140,000. Now the treasury must make up the difference...
Sixty years ago last week, Sigmund Freud paid his only visit to the U.S. to deliver a series of five lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. The $750 fee was a great help to the hard-pressed doctor, and the warm reception, he later noted, "encouraged my self-respect in every way." Now a collection of 13 letters discovered in the basement of Clark's library indicates that Freud kept up a correspondence with the university's president, Psychologist G. Stanley Hall. The letters abound with expressions of gratitude and courtesy. But one with a sharper tone...
Smothering Rage. When Mafia men are in trouble, the author contends, "help has a mysterious way of arriving in the nick of time." In the Franzese trial it came just before the judge's charge to the jury, in the form of a letter from a Sing Sing convict named Walter Sher. The letter claimed that one of Mosley's witnesses had admitted to Sher that he himself had killed The Hawk. In an emotional plea, Mosley argued that Sher was a psychopath, who had written the letter without even being asked, hoping to receive favors in prison...
...Take a guy in the Army reserve. If he's going into drill for two days, why should he have to change his image for the other 28 days? The sergeants don't realize that his girl won't look at him with short hair." To help remedy this, Woodford bought a lady's wig, trimmed it down to a respectable male length, ran that ad in the underground Times and discovered a need for his product...
...protest. In the September issue of the British magazine Encounter, Bettelheim spells out his ideas, which have been raising controversy at academic conferences and press conferences for the past six months. Among them: > "When I see some of these students -'unwashed' and 'unkempt'-I cannot help thinking: There goes another youngster who, as an infant, was practically scrubbed out of existence by his parents in the name of good hygiene and loving care." > "In most of the small group of leaders of the radical left, intellect was developed at much too early...