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...what behaviorists call reinforcement and aversion therapy (TIME, March 7, 1969; and July 11, 1969). Basically, the methods depend on the old carrot-and-stick approach, which rewards desired habits and punishes unwanted ones. Male homosexuals, for example, may be given electric shocks when they look at pictures of nude men and granted relief from the shocks when they view female figures (see cut). "What we are doing," explains Reinforcement Therapist Ogden Lindsley of the University of Kansas, "is very similar to what progressive businesses do. We constantly monitor performance. But instead of improving sales, we try to improve behavior...
...explained. "The State of Illinois end its local governing bodies already have enough to do without trying to control feline delinquency." In a similar vein, Patrick Leahy, state's attorney in Chittenden County, Vt., has responded to police who requested official guidance in coping with an increase of nude swimming. Highlights of Leahy's opinion...
...have been reminded that in the past the plethora of paper from this office has included such legal landmarks as my position on the use of sparklers on the Fourth of July and the validity of upside-down license plates. With such powerful precedents in mind, I researched the [nude swimming] issue. I began by reviewing the old Norman Rockwell paintings showing such activities taking place allegedly in Vermont. (Along this line, I was unable to confirm or refute the persistent rumor that Calvin Coolidge had also engaged in such activity within the borders of this state.) I have also...
...back into the big time. For Sparky, 43, Oakdale was a revelation. He abandoned his Beverly Hills office, together with his clothes, philosophizing that "I do most of my work by phone anyway," and moved right into one of the Oakdale cabins. "Out here," he mused, "I can float nude in the pool while my nude secretary sits on the edge and takes a letter-working conditions are marvelous...
Sparky's big job is to promote the Miss Nude Cosmos Pageant, a nude beauty contest held at Oakdale each summer. His first change has been to bill the pageant "The Woodstock of the Nudist Movement." He explains: "We've got to get the longhairs in here. Only way to save the place. And why not? They took their clothes off at Woodstock. Why can't they do it here...