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...elected a Republican Representative for the first time in 22 years. Virginia, which had not elected a Republican Congressman since 1930, gave three of its ten House seats to the G.O.P. Arizona, which had never sent a Republican to the House, elected Republican John Rhodes over Democratic Incumbent John Murdock...
...fill in for Main at center, Lahar indicated that the Raiders' Captain might be pressed into 60-minute service. Flanking Main are a pair of veteran guards--Bill Morrow and Bill Rowe, both of them seniors. At the tackles, Lahar has quite a bit of depth. Seniors Lee Murdock, Dick Day, and Don Miller, and sophomore Don Tomanek are all defensively able...
After digging into the social customs of 250 or more tribes scattered around the world, Anthropologist George Peter Murdock of Yale has concluded that prostitution is not the world's oldest profession. Psychiatry...
Professor Murdock began by noting that prostitution (as distinct from mere laxity in sexual behavior) does not exist in any primitive society even today, but that the medicine man is universal. And the medicine man in aboriginal cultures is always a magician who practices faith healing. Though he may belong to a tribe skilled in the use of drugs like quinine, he usually leaves the practice of physical medicine to old men or women who become specialists as herbalists or bonesetters. The true medicine man, says Murdock, confines his practice to curing the ills of the mind. And surprisingly often...
From this, Murdock considers it a short, logical step "to regard the medicine man as the lineal ancestor not of the physician but of the psychiatrist." Modern sophisticates who speak jokingly of their psychoanalysts as "witch doctors" are closer to the mark than they think...