Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...command tiers to the office of the Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC) in Honolulu and all the way to Washington. Yet there were some unaccountable lapses. At Yokosuka, Rear Admiral Frank L. Johnson got the messages quickly enough, but he knew that there were no naval aircraft available to help Pueblo. He turned at once to the Air Force's Lieut. General Seth J. McKee, who is commander of U.S. forces in Japan and chief of the Fifth Air Force, which has half a dozen bases in both Japan and South Korea. McKee, too, was strapped, for whatever planes...
Survival Insight. Logotherapy proposes few set rules for the psychiatrist. Dr. Frankl does not even exclude combining it with the most drastic physical treatments, when he thinks that nothing else will help. He takes pride in having introduced guaiphenesin, which he calls the first widely used tranquilizer, in 1952; he also uses electric shock, still a standard treatment in some cases of depression...
Although these findings help to explain only a minority of cases of gout, they show that it is not a simple, one-cause, one-effect disorder. At least two and probably more inherited enzyme defects are involved, and researchers are now trying to track these down. For the foreseeable future, gout victims will have to be satisfied with what relief they can get from drugs and watching their diet. But they may also solace themselves with an occasional glass of port wine or a highball...
Speed & Spring. Against Philadelphia and Wilt Chamberlain early in the season, Bing popped in 40 points to help the Pistons break a two-year, 16-game losing streak to the N.B.A. champions. Last month, on the night Bill Bradley was making his debut with the Knicks, Bing stole the show and the ballgame with 32 points. Last week, as the only second-year man chosen to start the N.B.A.'s All-Star game, which the East won 144-124, Bing contributed the gem of the evening. He stole a pass, drove in for a lay-up only to find...
...like to help you, Son, but you're too young to vote...