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...High & Going Up. Plenty, decided Dr. Chope. He knew that most of San Mateo's residents were newcomers, lonely for home-town ties. They worked in highly competitive fields, and their budgets were strained by sky-high real estate prices and king-sized mortgages. Tension lived on every block, and Dr. Chope attacked it with his own updated concept of public health. He is not a psychiatrist, nevertheless he made his department unique in the nation by paying as much attention to mental as to microbial ills. "In our society today," he said, "stress, frustration and anxiety...
...readers, have turned into a ready-mixed potpourri of syndicated columns, global think pieces, comic strips, canned features and coleslaw recipes. Local news continually comes in last. Without exception, the giveaway newspaper lavishes all its news attention on the local scene, and leaps with alacrity to publish home-town names...
This is all possible, but hardly likely. For one thing, Philadelphian Bill Humenuk will be getting a chance to secure the starting quarterback job before a home-town crowd, and he will be fired up to the point of explosion. And then, it is hard to imagine Penn beating Harvard under almost any conditions...
There is still much to do. For one thing, there is that home-town image of the Peace Corps marching off to save the world. It bothers the volunteers. Said Shriver in his congressional message: "As the Peace Corps enters its third year, volunteers and staff alike have the feeling that the Peace Corps stories most often repeated are too glamorous, too glowing, too pat. Few of these stories talk of the day-to-day problems, the frustrations, the harsh disappointments, and the serious occupational hazards-as one volunteer put it-of 'dysentery and boredom.' In a sense...
...this talk about brains and dames in space is bunk, said Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, 36, back for a home-town celebration in Shawnee, Okla. "If there had been a scientist on my flight, I don't think we would have gotten him back." As for the ladies, said Gordo, "to date there have been no women-and I say absolutely zero women-who have qualified to take part in our space program...