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This and many other oddly simple cures are credited to the foxy grandpa of American hypnotism, Milton H. Erickson. At 71, Erickson stands in the forefront of a revival of hypnotherapy-in eclipse since Freud rejected it as too superficial and impermanent. "Erickson is the most innovative practitioner of hypnosis since Mesmer," says Dr. Thomas Hackett, chief of the psychiatric consultation service at Massachusetts General Hospital. Although Erickson sometimes uses deep hypnotic trances to work his will on his psychiatric patients, he often limits himself to straightforward commands. He does not, however, explain the exact psychological mechanism behind his cures...
...four patients who have already been fitted with the experimental prosthesis report that it feels and performs much more like a normal hand than earlier devices. Milton Williamson, 47, an elementary school principal, used to wear clip-on bow ties; using Clippinger...
Started in 1844, the Chicken Ranch had seen a string of madams. The latest was a comely brunette in her 40s, Edna Milton. Nobody knew where Edna came from, but that did not matter. She ran a clean house that fulfilled its function: no drugs, no liquor, no teen-age whores. The girls, says one old customer, were "not too pretty, but not ugly. They were a sure thing." Edna provided services without any fancy Polly Adler-type "extras...
...racism. British Prime Minister Edward Heath suggested that if anybody was racist, it was Uganda's President Idi Amin. He accused Amin of "callous inhumanity" in his expulsion of 50,000 Asians. (Amin was not present; he had stayed home, perhaps mindful of how he had deposed Milton Obote while Obote was at the Singapore conference...
Directed by MILTON KATSELAS...