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This murder and four similar ones are described in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association by Pathologist Lester Adelson of Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University. The phenomenon of the "battered child" who has been killed or maimed by his parents is well known (TIME, Nov. 7, 1969), but the existence of what Adelson calls the "battering child" has scarcely been recognized. To Adelson, the importance of his five cases "far transcends their number"; while death wishes in children are known to be common, very few adults are aware that a preschool child...
...going to be fun, folksy and down to earth," said Georgia's Lieutenant Governor Lester Maddox. He was plugging his new TV variety show, Lester Maddox-U.S.A., a combination of God, patriotism and dancing girls. The first installment, to appear on an Atlanta station this week, features Prophetess Jeane Dixon, Singer Johnny Desmond, and Maddox and his wife warbling Let Me Call You Sweetheart to the accompaniment of a player piano. "I feel that I have God-given talent in the public relations field," declared Maddox. "I am able to attract people to listen. God has blessed...
Coles' essays on James Baldwin and Lester Maddox as victims of their own rhetoric are also statements on his own methodology, his need to be specific. "I can't stand all the abstracting," he has said. "The Marxist-Freudian blueprints...
...segregate. "The Bible teaches freedom of choice," Maddox insists privately. "Why would we have different races if God meant us to be alike and associate with each other?" Any racism in his church messages, however, is only implied. Moreover, claims Maddox's pastor, the Rev. R.B. Sims, "the Lester Maddox of today and the Lester Maddox of the Pickrick days are different. He has more compassion...
...going price for platinum sold by producers (about $120 per oz.), each new car sold with a platinum converter would contain about $12 worth of the substance. There also are geopolitical problems: the bulk of known platinum reserves lies in South Africa and the Soviet Union. Says Lester Krellenstein, a metals expert at the Manhattan brokerage house of Bache & Co.: "G.M. alone is experimenting with about 600 compounds to find another way to meet the emission standards...