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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chesler uses statistics to launch her assault. About 90% of U.S. psychiatrists and psychologists are male, but their patients in hospitals, clinics and private therapy are predominantly female, she says. She claims, for instance, that women make up two-thirds of the patients in private treatment-even though only 51% of the population is female. In fact, reliable statistics on private patients are impossible to come by. But assuming that Chesler is essentially correct, why is the proportion of women so high? The answer, she maintains, is that psychiatrists subscribe to a double standard of mental health: independent, assertive...
Died. Ernest Arigell, 83, national board chairman of the American Civil Liberties Union (1950-69), who helped launch the A.C.L.U.'s historic legal attacks on Government loyalty oaths, the death penalty, segregated juries and censorship of mail; in Manhattan...
...date is significant. By 1934 the Japanese had invaded northeastern China and were preparing to launch a blitz-krieg on her major cities. Chiang Kai-Shek was already fighting the Communists. Mao Tse-tung was leading the Red Army on its 6000-miles Long March...
...Peru and Spain, according to an aide-confusion remained behind. More important, Perón had endorsed no candidate for President, and left his Justicialist Party bickering over the choice. The Front initially refused to accept Perón's decision to decline the candidacy and promised to launch a legal appeal action to place his name on the March ticket. At week's end, though, the Front suddenly reversed field and picked a top Perónista henchman, a sometime dentist named Hector Campora, 63, as its candidate. Technically, Campora also is ineligible for the presidency under...
...computer should have ordered pressurization of the liquid oxygen tanks in the Saturn 5's third-stage booster. But because two tiny electrical contacts in the computer's miniaturized circuitry did not touch, the signal was not given. That failure was noticed by an alert launch controller, who immediately threw a manual switch that started the necessary procedure. The computer, programmed only to check its own automatic signals, assumed that pressurization had not begun and stopped the countdown...