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...Laura was only 2½, but so well adjusted for her age-she rarely cried and never had tantrums-that her doctors and parents had no qualms when she was admitted to London's Tavistock Clinic to have an umbilical hernia repaired. Her mother could visit Laura every day, and she would be home in a week. She seemed to understand all this when mummy and daddy explained it. She was even allowed to take her favorite soft toy, unsanitary though it was. Surgery went well, and to doctors and nurses Laura seemed fine. Even her anxious mother thought...
Must She Leave? But there was a keener observer: a hidden camera rigged by Psychoanalyst James Robertson. The camera's eye saw that the emotional damage to Laura had been far worse than doctors or parents suspected. Even at 2½ she could put on a brave-front part of the time, to hide deep distress. But in 24 hours she was beginning to withdraw from solicitous nurses. Soon she withdrew from her mother, resenting her visits because she could not understand why they had to end. Back home, Laura was markedly anxious and irritable for weeks; six months...
...virgin plateau 150 miles northeast of Saigon, tribesmen from the surrounding jungle villages and refugees from Communist-run North Viet Nam are learning modern farming techniques from 60-year-old New Yorker John Barwick and a dozen young (23-26) men from U.S. farm families. Barwick and his wife Laura worked in foreign countries (in the Middle East with Arab refugees, in Europe with prisoners of war) for 15 years before going to Viet Nam for the International Voluntary Service two years...
This Christmas, to honor a batch of native mountain lads, one of Barwick's assistants will show up in Santa Claus costume, wearing a white mop for a beard, and frail Laura Barwick, mother of four Stateside children, will roast a wild boar and some venison, bake a few pies. There will be tango music blasting across the red dirt street from Banmethuot's Chinese cinema, and John will pass around iced Algerian wine. Instead of the traditional Christmas tree, cotton balls on bamboo shoots will have to do. After the party the young American assistants will leave...
...Senator Theodore Green of Rhode Island. LAURA J. SMITH New York City...