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Teen-agers from families of high social status smoke less than those from families of low social status, according to a Harvard study. For the university's school of public health, Drs. Eva J. Salber and Brian MacMahon surveyed the senior high school in Newton, Mass., which they chose because the social cross section is similar to much of the urban U.S. To get serious and responsible answers, the researchers got the questionnaires filled out during school hours and required students to sign them, promising that neither parents nor teachers would ever learn what was in them...
...Newton survey showed that fathers in upper-class families smoke less than those in the lower classes. While this confirmed earlier surveys of parental influence on youngsters' smoking habits, the Newton researchers concluded that social class was a more powerful influence. As to why smoking is not entirely U, the doctors...
...long last, the grand paladins of television confronted their tormentor, FCC Chairman Newton ("Wasteland") Minow, as the FCC last week came to the scheduled closing round of its three-year investigation of television. First man to step up to the microphone, according to the script, was to be CBS's suave President Dr. Frank Stanton. But in a prologue that could turn into a theme, the FCC first put on the stand one of its economists, Dr. Hyman H. Goldin, who in staggering detail spun out the story of network TV's rich growth from earnings...
...President of Andover-Newton Theological School last night defended the admission of the Russian Church to the World Council of Churches, saying, "There is no proof whatever that the leaders of the Christian church in Russia are communists, or that they take their orders form the Kremlin...
...Rosten has published a novel. Its hero is a World War II Air Corps doctor whose name is Newman and, according to one of his peers, "he acts as if it were Newton." Or perhaps just N*E*W*M*A*N. At any rate, he is brilliant, engaging, confident, commanding, twice the size of life, and certainly the most revved-up psychiatrist who ever helped a patient recover from the terrors of the wild blue yonder...