Word: lynchings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paine Webber did select three stocks-the "best of a bad bunch"-as possible buys "in a more favorable market environment than now exists." A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. for its "unique position" at the retail end of the industry; Merrill Lynch for its leadership of the industry and First Boston, Inc. for its strong position on the institutional side. Merrill Lynch is preparing its own report on the industry, and it is likely to be gloomy. The TV ads will continue to proclaim that "Merrill Lynch is bullish on America," but the firm is less than bullish...
...should it be so? To Psychologist James J. Lynch, 38, author of a new book, The Broken Heart: The Medical Consequences of Loneliness (Basic Books; $10.95), the answer is obvious: loneliness kills. Says he: "Loneliness is not only pushing our culture to the breaking point, it is pushing our physical health to the breaking point...
...specialist in psychosomatic medicine at the University of Maryland Medical School, Lynch argues that social isolation brings emotional and then physical deterioration. Boston Irishmen, he notes, have a far higher coronary death rate than their brothers left behind in the more closely knit culture of the old sod. Nevada, a freewheeling singles-oriented state, has a higher rate of death from heart disease than neighboring Utah, with its Mormon tradition of close family ties. One study showed that in Roseto, an Italian American community in Pennsylvania, there were only one-third as many heart attacks as in culturally diversified surrounding...
...Lynch developed his theory while conducting a series of animal experiments that showed petting could produce "profound effects on the cardiovascular system of dogs." A similar result is found among human patients-even people in deep comas often show improved heart rates when their hands are held by doctors or nurses. Lynch's point is that medical personnel intuitively know the healing value of the human touch but sometimes manage to overlook the principle because it seems unscientific...
...fact, the author calls for a "medicine beyond science" and asks the question, "What can be done to help alleviate the spread of loneliness-induced disease in our society?" To Lynch, the search for short-order intimacy in group therapies and encounter and sensitivity training is a symptom of the problem, not the solution. The answer, he believes, lies in reaffirming the importance of the family and in caring for friends and neighbors. Says he: "Simply put, there is a biological basis for our need to form human relationships. If we fail to fulfill that need, our health...